Spacewalk Upgrade Revision as of Wednesday, 26 June 2024 at 10:57 UTC

Written for Spacewalk 1.7

Back up everything

cd /root/
mkdir spacewalk-backup; cd spacewalk-backup
tar -czvf etc.sysconfig.rhn.tgz /etc/sysconfig/rhn 
tar -czvf etc.rhn.tgz /etc/rhn
tar -czvf etc.jabberd.tgz /etc/jabberd

Backing up the Oracle XE instance

Use this script

DB_LOCATION="/usr/lib/oracle"
BACKUP_LOCATION="/backups/oracle"

SERVICE=$(which service)
RSYNC=$(which rsync)

# Take the database offline
$SERVICE oracle-xe stop

# Rsync to backup location
$RSYNC -av --progress --whole-file $DB_LOCATION/ $BACKUP_LOCATION/

# Start the database
$SERVICE oracle-xe start

# Log this
echo -e `date` > $BACKUP_LOCATION/lastbackup.log

Backing up the PostgreSQL instance

pg_dump -U spaceuser -d spaceschema --password | bzip2 > spaceschema.backup.bz2

Set up the new Spacewalk Repository

rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.5/RHEL/5/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.5-1.el5.noarch.rpm

This will modify /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo to point at version 1.5.

Upgrade

# Stop the Spacewalk service
/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service stop
/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service status

# Upgrade Spacewalk
yum upgrade --enablerepo=epel --enablerepo=spacewalk

# Make sure OracleXE is running
/usr/sbin/oracle-xe status

# Upgrade the schema
/usr/bin/spacewalk-schema-upgrade

# Update the configuration (use XE for SID, spacewalk/spacewalk for user/pass)
spacewalk-setup --disconnected --upgrade

# Enable monitoring and monitoring scout 
/usr/share/spacewalk/setup/upgrade/rhn-enable-monitoring.pl --enable-scout

Cleaning up

# Clean RHN cache
rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/satsync
rm -rf /var/cache/rhn/xml-*

# Clean jabberd
rm -f /var/lib/jabberd/db/*

Restart Spacewalk

/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service start