Spacewalk is a Linux and Solaris systems management solution. It allows you to 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, monitor your systems, provision virtual guests, and start/stop/configure virtual guests.
| Tags | Systems Administration Software Distribution Tools Monitoring Boot |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Java Perl Python |
| Translations | English Francais Bengali Hindi Japanese Punjabi Russian Simplified Chinese German Spanish Gujarati Italian Korean Brazilian Portuguese Tamil Traditional Chinese |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release adds Fedora 18 support, ABRT and SCAP improvements, WebUI Enhancements, new reports for spacewalk-reports, and new API calls.


Release Notes: This release added Fedora 17 support, Oracle XE 11g support, extended OpenSCAP functionality, server-side support for registering ARM clients, integration with SUSE Studio was added, basic ABRT notification, distribution-channel mapping that can be customized per organization, a view of systems requiring reboot, an extra packages view, the ability to download comps information in spacewalk-repo-sync, yum group operations, WebUI and usability improvements, and PostgreSQL improvements. Cobbler 2.0 is now packaged in Spacewalk repos. Archived actions now can be deleted. New API calls were provided.


Release Notes: Monitoring is now working on the PostgreSQL database backend. Both database backends are feature-comparable. OpenSCAP integration. Fully asynchronous clearing of orphaned monitoring data. Stock rhnpush is able to push Debian packages. A new spacewalk-clone-by-date tool. Numerous spacecmd enhancements. Improved messages printed when certificate activation fails.


Release Notes: IPv6 support; management and provisioning capabilities; support for Fedora 16 (server and client); kickstarting via Spacewalk Proxy with a CNAME; spacewalk-repo-sync supports --include and --exclude options; 16 new API calls; OSAD improvements; 5 security fixes; rhn-virtualization supports RHEV 3 hosts; spacewalk-reports supports a --where-<column-id> option to filter records; spacecmd enhancements and bugfixes; preliminary support for cobbler 2.2.


Release Notes: It is possible to edit schedule of taskomatic jobs via WebUI. AutoYaST support was added. Fine-grained searching (the ability to disable fuzzy search) was implemented. The satellite-sync downloads rpm files in four concurrent threads. Spacewalk 1.5 can be installed on Fedora 15. Two API calls were modified. Four new API calls were added. 81 bugs were solved.