How to Register clients with SpaceWalk Server

How to Register clients with SpaceWalk Server

This is the third post to related with SpaceWalk server How to Register clients with SpaceWalk Server. My first post explain what is spacewalk and how to install spacewalk on CentOS and second post explain How to spacewalk create channels and repository. Refer the below posts :

What is Spacewalk and how to install spacewalk on centos 7

How to create spacewalk channels and repository

Now, in this post I will explain you how to register client with spacewalk server which required some package to install on client servers. lets start how to register clients with spacewalk server

Client System Details :

• Operating System: CentOS 7
• Hostname: linux2.ghanshammahajan.com
• IP Address: 192.168.1.113.

Spacewalk Client Details

1.) The latest client tools bring the upstream development to your client boxes. That means that the packages may have dependencies that are not found in core CentOS. These dependencies can be found in EPEL. Install the Spacewalk yum repository and matching EPEL repository.

~]# rpm -Uvh https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8-client/epel-7-x86_64/00742644-spacewalk-repo/spacewalk-client-repo-2.8-11.el7.centos.noarch.rpm

Installation of spacewalk client repo RPM

~]# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

Installation of EPEL RPM in Spacewalk Client

2.) Client Package Installation :

 ~]# yum -y install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin

Installation of Packages for client registration in spacewalk server

3.) Install Spacewalk’s CA certificate on the server to enable SSL communication (change rpm version in this command if needed)

~]# rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.ghanshammahajan.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Spacewalk SSL Cert Download from spacewalk server

4.) Register your system to Spacewalk using the activation key you created earlier

We have already generated the activation key and mapped with Channel in previous post. login Spacewalk dashboard ==> Client on Systems ==> Activation Key ==> Copy the key

Spacewalk Server activation key

Now, run the below command on Client server for register the system.

~]# rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk.ghanshammahajan.com/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=1-896cc8d484c267c5b0c09c137bce9adb

Now, go to Systems  in the Spacewalk server dashboard. You’ll see there the client system has been registered.

Spacewalk Server showing the registered client

Now, Click on client hostname (linux2.ghanshammahajan.com)on Spacewalk Dashboard and see the more inforation. Spacewalk client system has subscribed automatically the Base channel (Ex. spgm_centos7).

spacewalk client server information

I have registered one more system in Spacewalk server. Now see the SpaceWalk dashboard look like.

two client systems in spacewalk server

Great!!! We have successfully register two system in spacewalk.

Spacewalk Documentation

Hopefully this will helps your understanding