The software described in this documentation is either no longer supported or is in extended support.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade to a current supported release.
The client system must permit the Spacewalk server to run remote commands. See Section 6.4, “Enabling Remote Configuration in a Kickstart Profile Using the Spacewalk Web Interface” and Section 6.6, “Enabling Remote Configuration Manually for Non-managed Client Systems”.
To be able to run OpenSCAP scans on a client system, install the
spacewalk-oscap package on that system.
You can use the OpenSCAP tools to audit Spacewalk clients. You can
use the SCAP Security Guide, which is provided with Oracle Linux 6
and Oracle Linux 7, or any OpenSCAP compliant eXtensible
Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) or Open
Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL) files. The
scap-security-guide package, which is available
for Oracle Linux 6 and Oracle Linux 7, provides SCAP Security Guides
that have been updated to include Common Platform Enumeration (CPE)
definitions for Oracle Linux.
For more information about using OpenSCAP compliance checking with Oracle Linux, see Running OpenSCAP Compliance Checks on Oracle Linux.