spacewalk-report goodness

An oft overlooked tool for satellite reporting is spacewalk-report.  At a previous employer, I created API scripts to do various routine reporting functions.  I found that most of  these routine reports were included in the spacewalk-reports package.

The default reports available are:

# spacewalk-report (option)

channel-packages
channels
entitlements
errata-channels
errata-list
errata-list-all
errata-systems
inventory
kickstartable-trees
scap-scan
scap-scan-results
system-history
system-history-channels
system-history-configuration
system-history-entitlements
system-history-errata
system-history-kickstart
system-history-packages
system-history-scap
users
users-systems

One report that I find helpful is "# spacewalk-report inventory"  You can dump it to a comma delimted format, and further manipulate the data as you see fit.

#spacewalk-report inventory > inventory.csv

The man page for spacewalk-report is pretty good, there is an option "--list-fields-info" that is helpful to run down the list and see whats available.

HTH!

Jim Lyle

Technical Account Manager(TAM)