How to install spacewalk 2.9 on CentOS 7

Spacewalk is an open source Linux systems management solution.

Spacewalk's capabilities include:

- Inventory your systems (hardware and software information)

- Install and update software on your systems

- Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups

- Provision (kickstart) your systems

- Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems

- Provision virtual guests

- Start/stop/configure virtual guests

- Distribute content across multiple geographical sites in an efficient manner

Requirements:

- Outbound open ports 80, 443

- Inbound open ports 80, 443, 5222 (only if you want to push actions to client machines) and 5269 (only for push actions to a Spacewalk Proxy), 69 udp if you want to use tftp

- Storage for database: 250 KiB per client system + 500 KiB per channel + 230 KiB per package in channel (i.e. 1.1GiB for channel with 5000 packages)

- Storage for packages (default /var/satellite): Depends on what you're storing; Red Hat recommend 6GB per channel for their channels

- 2GB RAM minimum, 4GB recommended

- Make sure your underlying OS is fully up-to-date.

Project page:
https://spacewalkproject.github.io/

Spacewalk repositories:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/%40spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.9/epel-7-x86_64/

Last build #00912457

Github:
https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk

EPEL 7 repositories
yum -y install epel-release

Step 1:

Configure hosts file
# vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
10.71.34.86     spacewalk.ibtechpa.local spacewalk

Install spacewalk repositories
# rpm -Uvh https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.9/epel-7-x86_64/00912457-spacewalk-repo/spacewalk-repo-2.9-4.el7.noarch.rpm

Install EPEL repositories
# yum -y install epel-release

Configure locale to avoid perl warning. 
This can cause some issues when configuring spacewalk.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "C.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

Add these lines:
# vi /etc/environment

LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"

Update and reboot the OS
# yum -y update
# reboot

Step 2:

Configure firewalld
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https
# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=69/udp --add-port=5222/tcp --add-port=5269/tcp
# firewall-cmd --reload

Install spacewalk embebbed database
#  yum -y install spacewalk-setup-postgresql

Install spacewalk
# yum install -y spacewalk-postgresql

Step 3:

Configure spacewalk
[root@spacewalk ~]# spacewalk-setup
* Setting up SELinux..
** Database: Setting up database connection for PostgreSQL backend.
Database "rhnschema" does not exist
** Database: Installing the database:
** Database: This is a long process that is logged in:
** Database:   /var/log/rhn/install_db.log
*** Progress: #
** Database: Installation complete.
** Database: Populating database.
*** Progress: ############################
* Configuring tomcat.
* Setting up users and groups.
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing key.
** GPG: Creating /root/.gnupg directory
You must enter an email address.
Admin Email Address? info@ibtechpa.com
* Performing initial configuration.
* Configuring apache SSL virtual host.
Should setup configure apache's default ssl server for you (saves original ssl.conf) [Y]? y
** /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf has been backed up to ssl.conf-swsave
* Configuring jabberd.
* Creating SSL certificates.
CA certificate password?
You must enter a password.
CA certificate password?
Re-enter CA certificate password?
Cname alias of the machine (comma seperated)? spacewalk
Organization? ibtechpa
Organization Unit [spacewalk.ibtechpa.local]?
Email Address [admin@ibtechpa.com]?
City?
City? Panama
State? Panama
Country code (Examples: "US", "JP", "IN", or type "?" to see a list)? PA
** SSL: Generating CA certificate.
** SSL: Deploying CA certificate.
** SSL: Generating server certificate.
** SSL: Storing SSL certificates.
* Deploying configuration files.
* Update configuration in database.
* Setting up Cobbler..
Cobbler requires tftp and xinetd services be turned on for PXE provisioning functionality. Enable these services [Y]?
* Restarting services.
Installation complete.
Visit https://spacewalk.ibtechpa.local to create the Spacewalk administrator account.
[root@spacewalk ~]#

Validate services its OK:
# spacewalk-service status

Step 4:

Open your browser and use IP address:
https://10.71.34.86

Domain name:
https://spacewalk.ibtechpa.local

Create administrator account and set your password:

You are ready to start managing spacewalk: