A function returning a list of hosts whose names matches to a given regexp from a spacewalk server

find_hosts_in_spacewalk.py

# Get a list of hosts whose names matches to a regexp from a spacewalk server

import re
import xmlrpclib

def find_hosts(rgx):
	spw = xmlrpclib.Server('https://spacewalk.example.com/rpc/api', verbose = 0)
	ky = spw.auth.login('admin', 'aVeryS3cretWord')
	return [n.lower() for n in [h['name'] for h in spw.system.list_systems(ky)] if re.search(rgx, n)]