OSADSetup

osad Installation Instructions

• Server Setup (osa-dispatcher and jabberd)
• Client Setup (osad)

Server Setup

• Ensure port 5222/tcp is open for inbound connections:
  • See Configuring the firewall section of the Spacewalk Installation Instructions page
• Ensure osa-dispatcher and jabberd are installed and running:
  • osa-dispatcher should have been installed when Spacewalk was installed

  # systemctl status osa-dispatcher.service jabberd.service
  ● osa-dispatcher.service - OSA Dispatcher daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/osa-dispatcher.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-01-10 15:46:19 EST; 1min 12s ago
    Process: 12371 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/osa-dispatcher --pid-file /var/run/osa-dispatcher.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 12370 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /var/run/osa-dispatcher.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 12375 (osa-dispatcher)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/osa-dispatcher.service
             └─12375 /usr/bin/python -s /usr/sbin/osa-dispatcher --pid-file /var/run/osa-dispatcher.pid
  
  ...
  
  ● jabberd.service - Jabber Server
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/jabberd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Wed 2018-01-10 15:46:18 EST; 31min ago
    Process: 12322 ExecStart=/bin/true (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 12322 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/jabberd.service

Client Setup

• Install osad

  yum install osad

• Change osa_ssl_cert in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/osad.conf to:

  osa_ssl_cert = /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

• If you haven't already, download the trusted cert to your client

  cd /usr/share/rhn/
  wget http://yourspacewalk.example.org/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

• Start osad

  service osad start