6.7 Enabling Remote Configuration for Non-managed Client Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface

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6.7 Enabling Remote Configuration for Non-managed Client Systems Using the Spacewalk Web Interface

Note

If you want Spacewalk to install the rhncfg, rhncfg-actions, and rhncfg-client packages automatically from a software channel, the channel label must contain the string rhn-tools, for example ol7-spacewalk24-client-rhn-tools.

To install and configure remote configuration for existing non-managed client systems:

In the Spacewalk web interface:
1. Enable the software channel that contains the rhncfg, rhncfg-actions, and rhncfg-client packages for the client. See Chapter 9, Updating Client Systems.
2. Go to Configuration, Systems, and then Target Systems.
3. On the Target Systems page, select the client systems from the systems that are listed and click Enable Spacewalk Configuration Management.
Configure configuration management by running the following commands on each client system:
1. Check for any queued pending actions:
```
# rhn_check
```
2. Configure the remote actions that the client permits, for example:
```
# rhn-actions-control --enable-all
```
  The --report option lists the permitted remote actions.
```
# rhn-actions-control --report
deploy is enabled
diff is enabled
upload is enabled
mtime_upload is enabled
run is enabled
```
  For more information, see the rhn-actions-control(8) manual page.