ConfigurationManagement

Configuration Management

Features

• File Support:

• Binary Files

• Text files

• Directories

• Sym-links

• File Attribute support:

• User/Group ownership

• Mode Permission

• SELinux permissions

Getting started

This assumes you have pushed the Spacewalk client repository to your Spacewalk server and subscribed a server to it.

• Install the client utilities:

  yum install rhncfg*

• Enable config management:

  rhn-actions-control --enable-all

• Within the web GUI create a configuration channel and add files.
• Subscribe the client to the configuration channel.
• Either schedule a config deploy from the webUI or run 'rhncfg-client get' on the client.

Client utility functions

rhncfg-client - Meant for managing the configuration files in relation to what is on the client.

• diff
• get
• list
• elist
• channels
• verify

rhncfg-manager -- Meant for managing the configuration files on the server.

• add
• create-channel
• diff
• diff-revisions
• download-channel
• get
• list
• list-channels
• remove
• remove-channel
• revisions
• update
• upload-channel

FAQ

1. Can I automatically restart a service after a configuration file is deployed?

   No, you can schedule a separate remote command though. Hopefully this is coming soon.

2. Can I upload files to the local sandbox or override list from the client (not to a configuration channel)? No, you can only upload to a specified configuration channel from the client.