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Registering Clients

Instructions for registering client systems you wish to manage with Spacewalk 2.10

If you are looking to register client systems to Spacewalk Nightly, more details are available at RegisteringClientsNightly

Note: for previous versions of Spacewalk use following links

Before Starting

  1. Create a base channel within Spacewalk (Channels > Manage Software Channels > Create New Channel)
  2. Create an activation key (Systems > Activation Keys > Create Key) with the new base channel. When creating a registration key do not use the generate function, create a human-readable version. eg: fedora-server-channel. This makes your installation more understandable and provides greater logical consistency to the whole system. On the other hand, if you want to prevent people from getting access to your channels, letting Spacewalk to generate random activation key name is the best way to go.

Note: rhnreg_ks is used for registration of clients to Spacewalk. If you need to re-register a client to your Spacewalk server or change registration from one environment or server to another Spacewalk server then use the "--force" flag with rhnreg_ks, otherwise there is no need to use "--force".

Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Scientific Linux/CentOS 8

  1. Install the Spacewalk client yum repository

    dnf copr enable @spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.10-client

  2. Install client packages

    dnf -y install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd dnf-plugin-spacewalk

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

    rpm -Uvh http://YourSpacewalk.example.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

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

    rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://YourSpacewalk.example.org/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=<key-with-fedora-custom-channel>

Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Scientific Linux and CentOS 6 and 7

Warning: If you are installing these packages on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation it will override some of the original base packages and you may well be invalidating your support agreement with Red Hat!

  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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These dependencies can be found in EPEL. Install the Spacewalk yum repository and matching EPEL repository.

    • RHEL / SL / CentOS 6

      yum install -y yum-plugin-tmprepo
yum install -y spacewalk-client-repo --tmprepo=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/%40spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.10-client/epel-6-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml --nogpg
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

    • RHEL / SL / CentOS 7

      RHEL: yum-plugin-copr is available in optional repository

      yum install -y yum-plugin-tmprepo
yum install -y spacewalk-client-repo --tmprepo=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/%40spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.10-client/epel-7-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml --nogpg
rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

  2. Install client packages

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

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

    rpm -Uvh http://YourSpacewalk.example.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

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

    rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://YourSpacewalk.example.org/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activationkey=<key-with-rhel-custom-channel>

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