How to use our local Spacewalk Server

Here’s the commands to run on your CentOS 5.x VPS to register and use our local Spacewalk Server to supply locally your CentOS 5 software updates.

All the following commands are run as the root user on your CentOS system.

rpm -U http://spacewalk1.netpres.com.au/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -U http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.9/RHEL/5/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-1.9-1.el5.noarch.rpm
## or for i386 CentOS 5 systems, use: http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.9/RHEL/5/i386/spacewalk-client-repo-1.9-1.el5.noarch.rpm
yum -y install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin
yum -y install perl
perl -pi -w -e 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g;' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo

rhnreg_ks --activationkey='AS_SUPPLIED_BY_NETPRES' --serverUrl=https://spacewalk1.netpres.com.au/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

If you’re using CentOS 6, here’s the similar commands to load the CentOS 6 Spacewalk client s/ware:

rpm -U http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.9/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm
## or for i386 CentOS 6 systems, use: http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.9/RHEL/6/i386/spacewalk-client-repo-1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Assuming the above rhnreg_ks command succeeds, then you should clean up your Yum s/ware for using the NetPres Spacewalk Repo server with:

yum clean all

After that your Yum software is ready and enabled to use our Spacewalk Server.

FYI,
Richard.

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We’ve had a rack at the TransAct (now part of iiNet) Data Centre in Canberra for 2 years now, yet our Sydney POP and its racks is growing far more and quicker than our Canberra POP and its rack, power and connectivity requirements.

Such that we can easily now host all of our own and our customers’ servers and rack mounted equipment that’s at our Canberra POP, in our growing Sydney POP and racks.

Accordingly, we’ll be physically moving all our Canberra hosted equipment to Sydney on Tuesday, July 23rd, aiming to have all hosting services (Colo, VPS and Connectivity) from Canberra back online in Sydney by 6am on Wednesday, July 24th.

We’ll be contacting all relevant customers that utilise Network Presence services and products in Canberra between now and the last week of July, advising of more details as to when downtime will be scheduled for their service(s), as well as discussing options to move their services earlier to our Sydney POP.

Please contact us if you have any queries about this work.

FYI and regards,
Richard.

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