Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How do I apply a highstate to a group of systems?

This for the most part works, but I'm getting mixed results in doing this over on my SUSE Manager server (I know - that is kind of off topic for this list). I assigned a group of servers to the group, which has that state channel attached. I applied the state. Most of them succeeded, but a few failed. On those, if I look at the state that attempted to apply, the config from the state channel never was applied to that system. The failure was because of a typo in the list of packages to install on the registration key the system was originally registered with. (It is trying to install a package that does not exist). That registration key has long since been deleted, but that package installation line is still in the high state for the system, and fails every time it is applied. I can directly attach the state channel to the system, and it will correctly install the state attached to that channel, but the status is still failed, because it is trying to install that package from the deleted registration key. Is there any way to clear/make it re-calculate the high state, to clear out that package installation line so that it doesn't fail every time highstate is applied? Also, could this error be the reason that the state channel config doesn't get applied through group membership? Allen B. -- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Office 205-348-2251 allen@ua.edu ________________________________________ From: Michael Calmer Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 2:21 AM To: users@lists.uyuni-project.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: How do I apply a highstate to a group of systems? Hi yes, System Groups is what you are looking for. You can assign the State Channel to the group and you can execute the highstate for the group. Am Montag, 14. Juni 2021, 22:33:25 CEST schrieb Allen Beddingfield:

I think I may have discovered the answer to my own question, with using System Groups. Is that the preferred method for accomplishing this?

-- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Office 205-348-2251 allen@ua.edu

________________________________________ From: Allen Beddingfield Sent: Monday, June 14, 2021 3:30 PM To: uyuni-users@opensuse.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] How do I apply a highstate to a group of systems?

I have created a state channel, with an init.sls entered that deploys a package, and pulls in a couple of files that are attached to the state channel. If I add that state channel to a system, and apply the highstate to that system, it works. However, what I need is a way to apply the highstate to a group of systems. What I want to do is to attach this to about 100 systems, and have it deploy - without having to individually go to each system and click "apply high state". Surely there is a way to do this? With config channels, I would deploy files by adding all the systems, selecting the files to deploy, and deploying them to all systems. I don't see any option from the state channel to apply it to all systems. Am I missing something obvious? Thanks. Allen B.

-- Allen Beddingfield Systems Engineer Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Office 205-348-2251 allen@ua.edu

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