Overview :
Spacewalk is an open source configuration management toolsponsored by Red Hat. Spacewalk is alternate of Redhat network satellite server on Centos / Fedora / Scientific Linux. Spacewalk is the upstream project for the source of Red Hat Network Satellite.
It provides a management interface for software content across registered servers. Some of important Features of Spacewalk are mentioned below :
- Manage Inventory of Servers (hardware and software information)
- Install and update software on Servers
- Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems
- Monitor your systems / Servers
Spacewalk Installation Steps on CentOS 6.X / RHEL 6.X
Step:1 Setup Spacewalk Repo.
# rpm -Uvh http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Step:2 Setup Additional Repositories.
For Spacewalk on CentOS, RHEL 6 and Fedora, We nee additional dependencies that are needed from jpackage. Create a file using below command :
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo << EOF [jpackage-generic] name=JPackage generic #baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/ mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=generic&type=free&release=5.0 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc EOF
Enable EPEL Repository :
Spacewalk requires a Java Virtual Machine with version 1.6.0 or greater. EPEL – Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux contains a version of the openjdk that works with Spacewalk.
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Step:3 Spacewalk Database Server Installation
Spacewalk uses database to store its primary data , it supports either PostgreSQL or Oracle RDBMS. In our case we are using postgresql.
# yum install spacewalk-setup-embedded-postgresql
Step:4 Installing Spacewalk
# yum install spacewalk-postgresql
Create a file under /root called ‘answer’ with below contents :
# vi /root/answers admin-email = root@localhost ssl-set-org = Nextstep4it ssl-set-org-unit = IT ssl-set-city = Delhi ssl-set-state = Delhi ssl-set-country = IN ssl-password = spacewalkpasswd ssl-set-email = root@localhost ssl-config-sslvhost = Y db-backend=postgresql db-name=spacewalkdb db-user=spacewalk db-password=spacewalkpasswd db-host=localhost db-port=5432 enable-tftp=Y
Now Install Spacewalk with an Answer File
# spacewalk-setup --disconnected –answer-file=/root/answers
After spacewalk-setup is complete , application is ready to use. Above command will create the postgresql database environment for spacewalk and will create ssl certificates and will start the services like tomcat.
Step:5 Access the Spacewalk using below URL and set administrative account .
Open Web browser and type ‘https://<Hostname / IP>‘, replace host-name or ip address according to your setup. After Setting the Administrative account , we can login to spacewalk admin GUI:
Spacewalk Service
# /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service [stop|start|restart]
