Spacewalk Installation Tutorial Step by Step On CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Scientific Linux

Overview:Spacewalk is an open source configuration management tool sponsoredby Red Hat. Spacewalk is alternate of Redhat network satellite server on Centos/ Fedora / Scientific Linux. Spacewalk is the upstream project for the sourceof Red Hat Network Satellite. It provides a management interface for software content acrossregistered 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 onCentOS / RHEL
Step: 1 Setup SpacewalkRepo.
#rpm -Uvh http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm
Step: 2 Setup AdditionalRepositories. For Spacewalk on RHEL 6 and Fedora, We need additional dependenciesthat 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
EOFEnable EPEL Repository: Spacewalk requires a Java Virtual Machine with version 1.6.0 orgreater. EPEL - Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux contains a version of theopenjdk that works with Spacewalk. # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpmStep:3 Spacewalk Database ServerInstallation
Spacewalk uses database to store its primary data , it supportseither PostgreSQL or Oracle RDBMS. In our case we are usingpostgresql. # yum install spacewalk-setup-embedded-postgresqlStep:4 Installing Spacewalk
# yum install spacewalk-postgresqlCreate a file under /rootcalled “answer” with below contents : # vi /root/answersadmin-email = root@localhostssl-set-org = PCCWssl-set-org-unit = ITssl-set-city = Shanghaissl-set-state = Shanghaissl-set-country = CNssl-password = spacewalkpasswdssl-set-email = root@localhostssl-config-sslvhost = Ydb-backend=postgresqldb-name=spacewalkdbdb-user=spacewalkdb-password=spacewalkpasswddb-host=localhost
db-port=5432enable-tftp=YConfigure 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 andwill create ssl certificates and will start the services like tomcat.Step:5 Access the Spacewalk usingbelow URL and set administrative account.
Open Web browser and type "https://<Hostname / IP>",replace hostname or ip address according to your setupAfter Setting theAdministrative account , we can login to spacewalk admin GUI: Spacewalk Service
# /usr/sbin/spacewalk-service[stop|start|restart]