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Description

spacecmd is a command-line interface to Satellite and Spacewalk servers.

Downloads

Stable RPMs are available in the Spacewalk server latest stable repositories

RPMs built nightly from git are available in the Spacewalk server nightly repositories

The source is available in the Spacewalk git repo at /spacecmd.

Install

To install spacecmd:

  1. Install Spacewalk client repo. Example(EL 7):

     rpm -Uvh https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8/epel-7-x86_64/00734156-spacecmd/spacecmd-2.8.25-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm

  2. Install spacecmd

     yum -y install spacecmd

Bugs

Bugs should be reported to Red Hat's Bugzilla under the "spacecmd" component.

Support

Highlights

  • view and manage nearly every aspect of Spacewalk

  • tab completion

  • can be passed single commands (useful for shell scripts)

  • can be used as an interactive shell

  • advanced searching of systems allows systems to be managed without having to create system groups

  • all functionality implemented via the Spacewalk API

Configure

Setting up spacecmd.

Credential File

Spacecmd can be configured with a credentials file so you are not prompted for a username/password each time. This allows for easier scripting.

  1. Create a hidden spacecmd directory in your home. Lock down permissions.

     mkdir ~/.spacecmd
 chmod 700 ~/.spacecmd

  2. Create a config file in the directory and give proper permissions.

     touch ~/.spacecmd/config

 chmod 600 ~/.spacecmd/config

  3. Edit the config file and fill in the header, Spacewalk server fqdn, username, and password.

     vim ~/.spacecmd/config

[spacecmd]
server=my-spacewalk-server.local
username=usernamehere
password=passwordhere

  1. Verify connectivity without a username/password prompt.

     spacecmd

Alias

A useful alias to create is one that will make spacecmd quiet. Quiet mode will NOT print the connecting to server status messages, which get in the way when parsing system lists.

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc

alias spacecmd='spacecmd -q'

Spacecmd Modes

Spacecmd has two modes; interactive and single command.

  • Enter interactive mode

    spacecmd

  • Execute a single command

    spacecmd <COMMAND>

Getting Help

To view command help/hints:

  • While already in Interactive Mode

    help <topic>

  • Single Command Mode

    spacecmd help <topic>

Spacecmd Example Commands

Some examples of using spacecmd.

Cache

A local cache is created to improve performance. This can leave you with outdated query information at some point.

To clear the local spacecmd cache:

spacecmd clear_caches

Group Commands

List system groups

spacecmd group_list

List systems in a group

spacecmd group_listsystems <GROUP>

Example Loop; Update systems in the "prod" group

for NODE in $(spacecmd group_listsystems prod); do echo "=>${NODE}"; ssh -qt ${NODE} "sudo yum -y update"; done

Add systems to a group (system names space separated)

spacecmd group_addsystems <GROUP> <SYSTEMS>

Remove systems from a group

spacecmd group_removesystems <GROUP> <SYSTEMS>

System Commands

List all systems

spacecmd system_list

View system details

spacecmd> system_details www01.example.com
Name:          www01.example.com
System ID:     1000010001
Locked:        False
Registered:    20100311 19:31:36
Last Checkin:  20100621 18:31:53
OSA Status:    online

Hostname:      www01.example.com
IP Address:    192.168.1.80
Kernel:        2.6.18-164.el5

Software Channels:
  custom-rhel-i386-server-5
    |-- custom-extras-i386-rhel5
    |-- clone-rhn-tools-rhel-i386-server-5

Configuration Channels:
  sudoers
  base
  base-rhel5

Entitlements:
  Management
  Monitoring
  Provisioning

System Groups:
  all_linux_systems
  all_linux_VMs
  rhel5-i386

Delete system from Spacewalk

spacecmd system_delete <SYSTEMS>

List a system's base channel

spacecmd system_listbasechannel <SYSTEM>

List a system's child channels

spacecmd system_listchildchannels <SYSTEM>

Set an entire group's base channel

spacecmd -y system_setbasechannel group:<GROUP-NAME> <BASE-CHANNEL-NAME>

List a system's installed packages, grep for a specific one

spacecmd system_listinstalledpackages <SYSTEM>  | grep glibc

Install Packages and Errata

Add and remove packages from the commandline

[user@sat]$ spacecmd -y system_installpackage www* mod_python
Scheduled 6 system(s)

[user@sat]$ spacecmd -y system_removepackage wiki02 mod_perl
Scheduled 1 system(s)

Apply errata from the command line

[user@sat]$ spacecmd -y errata_apply RHSA-2010:0423
Scheduled 42 system(s)

[user@sat]$ spacecmd -y system_applyerrata group:web_servers RHSA-2010:0040
Scheduled 16 system(s)

Channel Freezing

Some organizations have the requirement that the same updates that get applied in Development, must go through a Test and then Production environment.

In order to accomplish this, software channels can be cloned, essentially "freezing" them and preventing the cloned channel from receiving any new packages.

Clone an entire software channel tree:

spacecmd softwarechannel_clonetree <base-channel-id> --prefix "prefix-name-here" --gpg-copy

Example: Clone the CentOS 6 tree "centos6_x86-64_base" and give it a date it was cloned prefix. This will copy gpg data and errata data.

spacecmd softwarechannel_clonetree centos6_x86-64_base --prefix "20160111_" --gpg-copy
  • Note: This copies metadata of the channel and does NOT duplicate repo packages; so this does not take up much disk space.

Systems then can have their subscribed software channels changed to this "frozen channel" until the update cycle through production is complete. Once updated through production, subscribe systems back to the original channel or the next frozen channel. The old cloned channel can then be removed once no more systems are subscribed.

Reporting

Systems not in any group

spacecmd report_ungroupedsystems

Systems not checking in and their last check in time

spacecmd report_inactivesystems

Entitlements

[root@sat]# spacecmd report_entitlements | grep -e monitoring -e provisioning
monitoring_entitled: 314/397
provisioning_entitled: 322/397

Errata Reports

spacecmd> system_listerrata ldap03
System: ldap03

Security Errata:
RHSA-2010:0458  Moderate: perl security update                        6/7/10
RHSA-2010:0449  Moderate: rhn-client-tools security update            6/1/10
RHSA-2010:0423  Important: krb5 security update                      5/18/10

spacecmd> report_errata
# Systems       Errata
---------       ------
CLA-2010:0474       88
CLA-2010:0475        6
CLA-2010:0488      183
CLA-2010:0490      273
CLA-2010:0500        4
CLA-2010:0501        5
RHBA-2010:0402       1
RHSA-2010:0474       2
RHSA-2010:0488       1
RHSA-2010:0490       5

Out of Date Systems

spacecmd> report_outofdatesystems
System        Packages
------        --------
monkey             310
shark               63
hedgehog            39
pomeranian           4

IP Addresses

spacecmd> report_ipaddresses
System   Hostname                IP
------   --------                --
dns01    dns01.dmz.example.com   192.168.254.53
www01    www01.dmz.example.com   192.168.254.80
ztest    ztest.test.example.com  192.168.42.111

Kernel Versions

spacecmd> report_kernels
System       Kernel
------       ------
system01     2.6.9-89.0.25.ELsmp
system02     2.6.9-89.0.3.ELsmp
system03     2.6.9-89.0.26.ELsmp

System Set Manager

Working with multiple systems via system set manager on the cli.

Make temporary groups on-the-fly

spacecmd> ssm_add search:driver:bnx2
Systems Selected: 111

spacecmd> ssm_add search:device:vmware
Systems Selected: 285

spacecmd> ssm_add search:hostname:external.example.com
Systems Selected: 16

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