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.
Oracle supports only Oracle Linux servers as Spacewalk clients. You can use Spacewalk to manage Fedora-based clients and other systems by using upstream client binaries and repositories but Oracle does not provide support for these clients.
Oracle provides Spacewalk client packages for Oracle Linux 5 and 6 for both i386 and x86_64 architectures. For Oracle Linux 7, only packages for the x86_64 architecture are provided.
If the Spacewalk Client channel provided by Oracle is mirrored on the Spacewalk server, the Spacewalk client is installed automatically on servers that are provisioned from Spacewalk. You can use the spacewalk-common-channels command to configure the Spacewalk Client channel. See Section 1.2.2, “Configuring Software Channels Using the Oracle Linux Yum Server”.
Starting with Oracle Linux 7 Update 1, you do not need to install the Spacewalk client software before registering a system with a Spacewalk server. See Section 1.3.2, “Registering a Spacewalk Client Without First Installing the Spacewalk Client Software”.