These are installation instruction for Spacewalk 0.8.
Spacewalk 0.7 installation instructions are available at HowToInstall07
- Outbound open ports 80, 443, 4545 (only if you want to enable monitoring)
- Inbound open ports 80, 443, 5222 (only if you want to push actions to client machines) and 5269 (only for push actions to a Spacewalk Proxy)
- Storage for database: 128KB per client system + 64MB per channel
- Storage for packages (default /var/satellite): Depends on what you're storing; Red Hat recommend 6GB per channel for their channels
- 2GB RAM minimum, 4GB recommended
- If you use LDAP as a central identity service and wish to pull user and group information from it, see [[SpacewalkWithLDAP]]
RPM downloads of the project are available through a yum repository
- http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/ - Binary RPMs
- http://spacewalk.redhat.com/source/ - Source RPMs and tarballs
To use this repository install spacewalk-repo with commands below:
rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.8/RHEL/5/i386/spacewalk-repo-0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.8/Fedora/11/i386/spacewalk-repo-0.8-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.8/Fedora/12/i386/spacewalk-repo-0.8-1.fc12.noarch.rpm
If you want to use the nightly builds, add a .repo file pointing to the nightly repository:
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo << 'EOF'
[spacewalk]
name=Spacewalk
# RHEL 5 / CentOS 5
baseurl=http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/nightly-candidate/$basearch/os/
# Fedora 12
#baseurl=http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/nightly-candidate-f12/$basearch/os
# Fedora 11
#baseurl=http://miroslav.suchy.cz/spacewalk/nightly-candidate-f11/$basearch/os
gpgkey=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
NOTE: Nigthly repo contains developers snapshot and is not suitable in production environment.
For Spacewalk on Fedora, a couple of additional dependencies are needed from jpackage. Please create the following yum repository before beginning your Spacewalk installation:
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage.repo << EOF
[jpackage]
name=jpackage-f10
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/fedora-10/free/
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
gpgcheck=1
EOF
Note: the dirs for f11 and f12 do not contain the rpms yet
Spacewalk requires a Java Virtual Machine with version 1.6.0 or greater. EPEL - Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux contains a version of the openjdk that works with Spacewalk. Other dependencies can get installed from EPEL as well. To get packages from EPEL just install this RPM:
BASEARCH=$(uname -i)
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/$BASEARCH/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
Please make sure you have only one java version installed. Otherwise you get error messeges like :
- " bad major version at off set=6" or
- "INFO: validateJarFile(/usr/share/tomcat5/webapps/rhn/WEB-INF/lib/jspapi.jar) - jar not loaded."
Follow the instructions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with the additions:
-
Necessary packages rhn-client-tools and rhnlib were removed from CentOS, they can be found in spacewalk-client repo. Setup it by installing spacewalk-client-repo package.
rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.8/RHEL/5/i386/spacewalk-client-repo-0.8-1.el5.noarch.rpm
-
Import Redhat's RPM GPG key:
wget -O /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release http://www.redhat.com/security/37017186.txt
In order to get Spacewalk to run you need the Oracle client and an Oracle 10g database server. The easiest way to do this is to install Oracle XE and the Oracle Instant Client. Instructions on how to do this can be found on the Oracle 10g Express Edition Setup page.
Just ask yum to install the necessary packages. This will pull down and install the set of RPMs required to get Spacewalk to run.
0.8 installation:
If you tend to use the Oracle backend:
yum install spacewalk-oracle
If you prefer the PostgreSQL backend:
yum install spacewalk-postgresql
Note: PostgreSQL support is in early development stage. You may want to take a look at the PostgreSql Project page for further information.
Note: Your Spacewalk server should have a resolvable FQDN such as 'hostname.domain.com'. If the installer complains that the hostname is not the FQDN, do not use the --skip-fqdn-test flag to skip !
Also, this will not work unless the spacewalk account has a password. You can set up a password by logging in to sqlplus with the sys account and using the command
PASSWORD user_name
where user_name = spacewalk.
Once the Spacewalk RPM is installed you need to configure the application, you can run:
spacewalk-setup --disconnected
An example session is as follows:
[root@fjs-0-02 yum.repos.d]# spacewalk-setup --disconnected
* Setting up Oracle environment.
* Setting up database.
** Database: Setting up database connection.
DB User? spacewalk
DB Password?
DB SID? XE
DB hostname? localhost
DB port [1521]?
DB protocol [TCP]?
** Database: Testing database connection.
** Database: Populating database.
*** Progress: ##########################################################
* Setting up users and groups.
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.
** GPG: Creating /root/.gnupg directory
You must enter an email address.
Admin Email Address? [email protected]
* Performing initial configuration.
* Activating Spacewalk.
** Loading Spacewalk Certificate.
** Verifying certificate locally.
** Activating Spacewalk.
* Enabling Monitoring.
* Configuring apache SSL virtual host.
Should setup configure apache's default ssl server for you (saves original ssl.conf) y/n? y
** /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf has been backed up to ssl.conf-swsave
* Creating SSL certificates.
CA certificate password?
Re-enter CA certificate password?
Organization? Tito Puente Solutions
Organization Unit [fjs-0-02.rhndev.redhat.com]?
Email Address [[email protected]]?
City? Raleigh
State? NC
Country code (Examples: "US", "JP", "IN", or type "?" to see a list)? US
** SSL: Generating CA certificate.
** SSL: Deploying CA certificate.
** SSL: Generating server certificate.
** SSL: Storing SSL certificates.
* Deploying configuration files.
* Update configuration in database.
* Setting up Cobbler..
Cobbler requires tftp and xinetd services be turned on for PXE provisioning functionality. Enable these services (y/n, default = 'y')?y
* Restarting services.
Installation complete.
Visit https://fjs-0-02.rhndev.redhat.com to create the Spacewalk administrator account.
You can also configure spacewalk by using an answer file. To configure spacewalk by using an answer you just need to run the following
spacwalk-setup --disconnected --answer-file=<FILENAME>
An example answer file is as follows
admin-email = root@localhost
ssl-set-org = Spacewalk Org
ssl-set-org-unit = spacewalk
ssl-set-city = My City
ssl-set-state = My State
ssl-set-country = US
ssl-password = spacewalk
ssl-set-email = root@localhost
ssl-config-sslvhost = Y
db-backend=oracle
db-user=spacewalk
db-password=spacewalk
db-sid=xe
db-host=localhost
db-port=1521
db-protocol=TCP
enable-tftp=Y
NOTE: If you do not supply a value or leave out a key you will be prompted to supply that answer
After spacewalk-setup is complete your application is ready to go!
Be sure to use the FQDN of the host when you connect.
NOTE: If you notice you missing some buttons and channels that have been created aren't visible in you UI edit /etc/sysconfig/httpd and change:
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle
export NLS_LANG=english.AL32UTF8
to
export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server
export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
Once you've made sure you can login to the Spacewalk web UI, you can then proceed to the next step: Uploading Content.
Spacewalk consists of several services. Each of them has its own init.d script to stop/start/restart. If you want manage all spacewalk services at once use
/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite [stop|start|restart].
- For issues with Oracle XE, see Oracle XE Setup Known Issues
- For "Certificate Expiring" messages appearing in the GUI please see this article.