This repo contains a load of utility scripts that I wrote (with help in some places) for managing bits and pieces of an RHN satellite. They all require the python-rhnapi module, also available from my github to work. Some of them also make use of the python-progressbar library, borrowed from google code and slightly mangled to work with distutils rather than external python-setuptools, because I had to do a lot of this on RHEL5.
The scripts use python's built-in distutils, which means that you should be able to do the following:
- update setup.cfg to set the appropriate release number (or use
--release) on the commandline python setup.py bdist_rpm
The list of scripts that this will install (into /usr/bin for the moment) is in the setup.py script
The scripts should all have -h/--help options (totally overengineered in this regard) and (might) do what they sound like.
At the time of writing, the following scripts are in the repo. There are actually a couple of others, but they're under fairly heavy dev, so I'd leave them well alone unless you want to fix them :)
Of course, if you do, then patches and improvements gladly accepted!
| spw-activationkey-clone | clones an activationkey according to options given |
| spw-activationkey-delete | deletes the provided list of activationkeys |
| spw-activationkey-export | exports activation keys to a JSON-format text file |
| spw-activationkey-import | imports all (or selected) activation keys from a text file |
| spw-activationkey-list | lists activation keys and descriptions |
| spw-channel-clone | clones a software channel. Allows for recursive cloning, regex substitution, prefix and suffix addition. |
| spw-channel-create | creates an empty software channel |
| spw-channel-delete | deletes a software channel. Use with caution. |
| spw-channel-dumppackagelist | dumps out a list of packages for a given channel to a text file. Supports recursion. |
| spw-channel-list | lists software channels. Supports regex and can display the number of subscribed systems. |
| spw-channel-org-access | controls / reports on channel sharing across orgs |
| spw-channel-packageaudit | diffs all subscribed systems package lists against their subscribed channels. |
| spw-channel-packageversions | shows all versions of a given package in specified channels. Supports shell globbing for both channel and package specification. |
| spw-channel-patchsummary | compares errata in a chosen channel or channel group (from config file) with its original source channel. Can specify a different source if required. |
| spw-configchannel-clone | Clones a configuration channel. Can use regex matching for source and destination. Cloned configuration channels lose revision history, but keep file revision numbers (so essentially a point-in-time snapshot of a given config channel) |
| spw-configchannel-delete | deletes the specified config channels and all their content. use with care. |
| spw-configchannel-export | export chosen configuration channel(s) to JSON-format text file |
| spw-configchannel-import | imports chosen configuration channel(s) from JSON-format text file. |
| spw-configchannel-listfiles | lists content and properties of a given (or all) configuration channels |
| spw-kickstart-delete | deletes the chosen kickstart profiles |
| spw-kickstart-export | exports chosen kickstart profile(s) to JSON text file |
| spw-kickstart-import | imports kickstart profiles from JSON text file |
| spw-package-listerrata | finds errata for a given package name |
| spw-package-audit | compares a dump of 'rpm -qa' from a system to a software channel of your choice. Details older/newer packages etc |
| spw-errata-clone | clones/publishes specified errata |
| spw-system-list-badarch | lists systems with packages marked as of 'unknown' arch (finds old rhel4 systems which need updated RHN packages) |
I'd create a ~/.rhninfo file if I were you (you'll be prompted for user info anyway, but it simplifies things)
password/login as None essentially means 'prompt'
see templates/rhninfo.template, but it looks like this::
[DEFAULT] login=None password=None [your.sat.server] login=xxxxxx password=None