Install SpaceWalk in CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Scientific Linux 6, CentOS 6

rpm -Uvh http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.9/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Red Hat Optional Server 6

When using RHEL 6, make sure you are subscribed to following RHN channel:
Red Hat Optional Server 6

Jpackage repository RHEL 6, SL 6, CentOS 6 and Fedora

For Spacewalk on EL 6 and Fedora, a couple of additional dependencies are needed from jpackage. If repo is broken, mirror list here: ​http://www.jpackage.org/mirroring.php

Please configure the following yum repository before beginning your Spacewalk installation:

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo << EOF [jpackage-generic] name=JPackage generic #baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/ mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=generic&type=free&release=5.0 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc EOF

We specifically want 5.0 generic directory in the above URL. Make sure, you do not use the jpackage-generic repository on RHEL 5.


EPEL 6 (use for RHEL 6)

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

PostgreSQL server, set up by Spacewalk (embedded)

You can let Spacewalk setup the PostgreSQL server on your machine without any manual intervention. Run:

yum install spacewalk-setup-embedded-postgresql

Installing Spacewalk

Just ask yum to install the necessary packages. This will pull down and install the set of RPMs required to get Spacewalk to run.

If you prefer the PostgreSQL backend, including the embedded version mentioned above: yum install spacewalk-postgresql

Configuring the firewall

Spacewalk needs various inbound ports to be connectible. Use system-config-firewall or edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables, adding the ports needed -- 80 and 443. On system with firewalld use firewall-cmd --add-service=http ; firewall-cmd --add-service=https. Add port 5222 if you want to push actions to client machines and 5269 for push actions to a Spacewalk Proxy, 69 udp if you want to use tftp.

Space needed in hard disk 15G for embebded database.

spacewalk-setup --disconnected

/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service [stop|start|restart].

Saludos!!