stdevel / arsa

a script for archiving and removing old Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite 5.x or SUSE Manager actions

arsa

arsa.py is a script for archiving and removing old Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite or SUSE Manager actions.

The login credentials are prompted when running the script. If you need to automate this (e.g. cronjobs) you have two options:

Setting two shell variables

The following shell variables are used:

• SATELLITE_LOGIN - a username
• SATELLITE_PASSWORD - the appropriate password

You might also want to set the HISTFILE variable (depending on your shell) to hide the command including the password in the history:

$ HISTFILE="" SATELLITE_LOGIN=mylogin SATELLITE_PASSWORD=mypass ./arsa.py -n

Using an authfile

A better possibility is to create a authfile with permisions 0600. Just enter the username in the first line and the password in the second line and hand the path to the script:

$ ./arsa.py -n -a myauthfile

By default the script archives completed actions but you can also remove archived actions.

Parameters

The following parameters can be specified:

Parameter	Description
-d / --debug	enable debugging outputs (default: no)
-h / --help	shows help and quits
-a / --authfile	defines an authfile to instead of shell variables
-s / --server	defines the server to use (default: localhost)
-r / --remove	archives completed actions and removes all archvied actions (default: no)
-n / --dry-run	only lists actions that would be archived (default: no)
-f / --include-failed	also include failed actions (default: no)
-t / --only-system-tasks	only consider automated system tasks such as package list refresh (default: no)
--version	prints programm version and quits

Examples

Listing all completed actions (login information are passed using shell variables):

$ SATELLITE_LOGIN=mylogin SATELLITE_PASSWORD=mypass ./arsa.py -n
things I'd like to clean (completed):
-------------------------------------
action #1494 ('Remote Command on mymachine.localdomain.loc.')

Removing all completed actions (login information are provided by the authfile):

$ ./arsa.py -a myauthfile
Archving action #1494 ('Remote Command on mymachine.localdomain.loc.')...

Removing all completed and archived actions (login information are prompted):

$ ./arsa.py -r
Username: mylogin
Password: 
Archving action #1494 ('Remote Command on mymachine.localdomain.loc.')...
Deleting action #1494 ('Remote Command on mymachine.localdomain.loc.')...
Deleting action #1493 ('Remote Command on myothermachine.localdomain.loc.')...