Spacewalk Documentation Release Master

Avi Miller

October 20, 2015

Contents

1 Release Notes 3 1.1 Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 2.4...... 4 1.2 Contributors...... 4 1.3 Some statistics...... 5 1.4 User community, reporting issues...... 6

2 Installation Guide 7 2.1 Document Conventions...... 7 2.2 Getting Help...... 7

3 Upgrade Guide 9

4 Getting Started Guide 11

5 Client Conﬁguration Guide 13

6 User Guide 15

7 Reference Guide 17

8 Proxy Guide 19

9 Copyright and Legal Notices 21

10 Indices and tables 23

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Spacewalk documentation is split into several books. Contents:

Contents 1 Spacewalk Documentation, Release Master

2 Contents CHAPTER 1

Release Notes

Hello everyone, We are proudly announcing release of Spacewalk 2.4, a systems management solution. The download locations are • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/6/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/RHEL/7/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/21/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4/Fedora/22/ with client repositories under • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/5/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/6/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/RHEL/7/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/21/ • http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.4-client/Fedora/22/ SUSE Linux client packages can be found here • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_13.1/ • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_13.2/ • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/SLE_12/ • http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.4/SLE_11_SP4/ For fresh installations, please use steps from • Installation Guide If you plan to upgrade from older release, search no more – the following page will guide you: • Upgrade Guide

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1.1 Features & Enhancements in Spacewalk 2.4

• Spacewalk now supported on Fedora 22 • Spacewalk supports Fedora 22 clients – New package - dnf-plugin-spacewalk • Organization-specific configuration moved to Organization Admin menu – Satellite admins can allow/disallow Organization admins to manage this configuration • Passwords are not sent to user in clear text anymore – https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/Features/ResetPassword • Continued UI polish and improvements, including standardizing on Patternfly • Plenty of small enhancements and fixes – Added support for Catalan and Portuguese translations from Zanata project – Fedora and RHEL/CentOS 7 Cobbler provisioning fixes – Removed checksum type None for software channels – Fixed system.listUngroupedSystems API call – Repository sync page improved to show more details about last sync – Repository sync option for syncing latest packages only added – Osa ping API calls added – Added compliancy indicator icon on Scap results list page • New API calls: – org.isErrataEmailNotifsForOrg – org.isOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin – org.setErrataEmailNotifsForOrg – org.setOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin – system.getOsaPing – system.sendOsaPing The up-to-date API documentation can be found at http://www.spacewalkproject.org/documentation/api/2.4/

1.2 Contributors

Our thanks go to the community members who contributed to this release: • Amar Huchchanavar • Anastasios Papaioannou • Aron Parsons • Avi Miller • David Holland • David Hrbácˇ

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• Duncan Mac-Vicar P • Frantisek Kobzik • Hubert Mantel • Jared Greenwald • Johannes Renner • Kevin Walter • Klaas- • Marcelo Moreira de Mello • Martin Seidl • Matej Kollar • Michael Calmer • Michael Kromer • Michael Mattioli • Michael Mraka • Miroslav Suchý • Patrick Hurrelmann • Paul Wayper • Pavel Studenik • Shannon Hughes • Silvio Moioli • Stephen Herr • Šimon Lukašík • Tasos Papaioannou I Thomas Mueller https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/ContributorList

1.3 Some statistics

In Spacewalk 2.4, we’ve seen • 59 bugs ﬁxed • 428 changesets committed • 705 commits done Github repo for commits since Spacewalk 2.3 • Spacewalk 2.3 to 2.4

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1.4 User community, reporting issues

To reach the user community with questions and ideas, please use spacewalk-list mailing list. On this list, you can of course also discuss issues you might ﬁnd when installing or using Spacewalk, but please do not be surprised if we ask you to ﬁle a bug with more details or full logs. Thank you for using Spacewalk.

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Installation Guide

Contents:

2.1 Document Conventions

2.2 Getting Help

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8 Chapter 2. Installation Guide CHAPTER 3

Upgrade Guide

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10 Chapter 3. Upgrade Guide CHAPTER 4

Getting Started Guide

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12 Chapter 4. Getting Started Guide CHAPTER 5

Client Conﬁguration Guide

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14 Chapter 5. Client Conﬁguration Guide CHAPTER 6

User Guide

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16 Chapter 6. User Guide CHAPTER 7

Reference Guide

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18 Chapter 7. Reference Guide CHAPTER 8

Proxy Guide

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20 Chapter 8. Proxy Guide CHAPTER 9

Copyright © 2011-2014 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright © SUSE LLC The text of and illustrations in this document are licensed by Red Hat under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (“CC-BY-SA”). An explanation of CC-BY-SA is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. In accordance with CC-BY-SA, if you distribute this document or an adaptation of it, you must provide the URL for the original version. This document is an adaption of original works found at: • https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki Red Hat, as a licensor of these documents, waives the right to enforce, and agrees not to assert, Section 4d of CC-BY- SA to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Shadowman logo, JBoss, MetaMatrix, Fedora, the Inﬁnity Logo, and RHCE are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries. Java® is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its afﬁliates. XFS® is a trademark of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. MySQL® is a registered trademark of MySQL AB in the United States, the European Union and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For Novell trademarks, see the Novell Trademark and Service Mark list http://www.novell.com/company/legal/trademarks/tmlist.html. Linux® is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Indices and tables

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