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Red Hat Network Enterprise User Reference Guide 2.2 ...

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Red Hat Network Enterprise: User Reference Guide 2.2 Copyright © 2001 - 2003 by Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606-2072 USA Phone: +1 919 754 3700 Phone: 888 733 4281 Fax: +1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triangle P...

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Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................................i 1. Document Conventions............................................................

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4.4.7. Activation Keys................................................................................................. 55 4.5. Errata.......................................................................................................................

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Introduction Welcome to the Red Hat Network Enterprise User Reference Guide 2.2. The Red Hat Network Enterprise User Reference Guide will guide you through registering your sys- tem for Red Hat Network and using its many features. Depending on which ...

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ii Introduction Install the webalizer RPM if you want to use a Web server log file analysis program. application This style indicates that the program is an end-user application (as opposed to system software). For example: Use Mozilla to browse the...

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Introduction iii prompt A prompt, which is a computer’s way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something, will be shown in this style. Examples: $ # [stephen@maturin stephen]$ leopard login: user input Text that the user has to type, e...

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iv Introduction Warning If you choose not to partition manually, a server installation will remove all existing partitions on all installed hard drives. Do not choose this installation class unless you are sure you have no data you need to save. 2. M...

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Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? Have you ever read about a new version of a software package and wanted to install it but could not find it? Have you ever tried to find an RPM through an Internet search engine or an RPM Repository and been link...

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2 Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? probing the software packages installed on your system to create a Package Profile. This information is sent to RHN, and RHN returns a unique System ID to your system. See Chapter 7 Red Hat Network Registration ...

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Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? 3 1.3. Enterprise In addition to the features offered in the RHN Demo and Basic subscription levels, the RHN Enterprise subscription service allows you to manage your network of Red Hat Linux systems, users, and sy...

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4 Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? 1.5. Security, Quality Assurance, and Red Hat Network Red Hat Network provides significant benefits to your network including security and quality assur- ance. All transactions made between you and Red Hat Netw...

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Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? 5 Package Name Description rhn_register Provides the Red Hat Network Registration Client program and the text mode interface rhn_register- gnome Provides the GNOME interface (graphical version) for the Red Hat Netw...

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6 Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? ...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent The Red Hat Update Agent is your connection to the Red Hat Network. It enables you to register your systems, create System Profiles, and alter the settings by which your organization and RHN interact. Once registered,...

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8 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent If you choose the last option and start the application from a shell prompt, you can specify the options in Table 2-1 to the Red Hat Update Agent. To view these options, type the command up2date --help. For example, ...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 9 Figure 2-1. Configure Proxy Server The second dialog box to appear will prompt you to install the Red Hat GPG key, as shown in Figure 2-2. This key is used to verify the packages you download for security purposes. ...

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10 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Note In addition to the steps described here, the Red Hat Update Agent also provides a utility aimed at batch processing the registration of systems called Activation Keys. Refer to Section 2.5 Registering with Acti...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 11 Figure 2-4. Red Hat Privacy Statement 2.2.1. Registering a User Account Before you can create a System Profile, you must create a user account. All that is required is a unique username-password combination and a v...

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12 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent • Cannot contain any line feeds • Cannot contain the characters &, +, %, or ’ Figure 2-5. Create a User Account You must choose a unique username. If you enter one already in use, you will see an error mes...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 13 Figure 2-6. Error: Username Already Exists Most users can leave the Org Info section blank. If you have an existing organization account, enter your organization’s ID and password in the provided text fields. If ...

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14 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Figure 2-7. Register a User Account Once satsfied with the information supplied, click Forward to continue. 2.2.2. Registering a System Profile Now that you have a user account, you can create a System Profile th...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 15 • Disk sizes • Mount points The next step is choosing a profile name for your system as shown in Figure 2-8. The default value is the hostname for the system. You may modify this to be a more descriptive string...

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16 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 2.2.2.2.1. Gathering RPM Database Information Only those packages you choose during this part of the registration will be included in your System Profile, and you will receive notifications only about the packages...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 17 2.2.2.2.2. Choosing RPM Packages to Exclude from the System Profile By default, all RPM packages in your RPM database are included in your System Profile to be updated by Red Hat Network. To exclude a package, unc...

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18 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Figure 2-12. Finished Collecting Information for System Profile Figure 2-13 shows the progress bar you will see while your profile is being sent. This process may take some time depending on your connection speed....

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 19 2.3.1. Choosing a Channel The first step is to select the channel from which you want the updated packages to be retrieved. After you send your System Profile, the Channels screen (Figure 2-14) appears. Select the...

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20 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent While you see this dialog box, the Red Hat Update Agent uses your unique Digital Certificate (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid) to determine if there are any updated packages available for your system. If there are no u...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 21 Figure 2-18. View Advisory The Available Package Updates screen is the next to appear. If your system is not up-to-date, your customized list of available updated packages is displayed as shown in Figure 2-19. ...

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22 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Figure 2-19. List of Available Updates By default, no packages are selected for download. To select a package for download (and installation, if you chose that option), click its checkbox. To select all the packages...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 23 Figure 2-21. Retrieval Finished 2.3.3. Installing Updated Packages After downloading the packages through the Red Hat Update Agent, they must be installed. If you chose not to have the packages installed via the Red...

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24 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Figure 2-22. Installation Finished 2.3.4. Update Agent Finished When the Red Hat Update Agent has finished downloading the desired packages (and installing them if you chose the install option), you will see the sc...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 25 Figure 2-23. Update Agent Finished 2.3.5. Command Line Version If you are not running X, you can still run the Red Hat Update Agent from a virtual console or remote terminal. If you are running X but want to use the...

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26 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Argument Description -d, --download Download packages only; do not install them. This argument temporarily overrides the configuration option Do not install packages after retrieval. Use this option if you prefer t...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 27 Argument Description --tmpdir=directory Temporarily override the configured package directory. The default location is /var/spool/up2date. This option is useful if you do not have enough space in the configured lo...

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28 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGiBDfqVDgRBADBKr3Bl6PO8BQ0H8sJoD6p9U7Yyl7pjtZqioviPwXP+DCWd4u8 HQzcxAZ57m8ssA1LK1Fx93coJhDzM130+p5BG9mYSWShLabR3N1KXdXQYYcowTOM GxdwYRGr1Spw8QydLhjVfU1VSl4xt6bupPbWJbyjkg...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 29 After running this command, your RHN System Profile will reflect the latest software versions in- stalled on your system. 2.3.5.4. Log File The Red Hat Update Agent keeps a log of all the actions that it performs ...

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30 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Figure 2-24. General Settings In addition, RHN Proxy and Satellite customers have the option of selecting Red Hat Network Servers here. These customers should refer to the RHN Client Configuration Guide for detaile...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 31 Figure 2-25. Retrieval/Installation Settings The following package retrieval options can be selected (see Figure 2-25): • Do not install packages after retrieval — download selected RPM packages to desired direc...

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32 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent To define a set of packages to be excluded according to the package name, enter a character string including wild cards (*) in the Add new text field under in the Package Names to Skip section. A wild card at the ...

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Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent 33 6. pkgSkipList [’kernel*’] 7. storageDir /var/spool/up2date 8. adminAddress [’root@localhost’] 9. noBootLoader No 10. serverURL https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 11. fileSkipList [] 12. sslCACert /usr/share...

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34 Chapter 2. Red Hat Update Agent Note Systems running versions of Red Hat Linux older than 8.0 need version 2.7.20 or higher of the rhn_register package. It is highly recommended you obtain the latest version before using activa- tion keys. Before ...

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Chapter 3. Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool The Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool is a notifier that appears on the panel and alerts users when software package updates are available for their systems. The list of updates is retrieved...

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36 Chapter 3. Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool Figure 3-2. HTTP Proxy Configuration If your network connection requires you to use an HTTP Proxy Server to make HTTP connec- tions, on the Proxy Configuration screen, type your proxy server in...

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Chapter 3. Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool 37 If you see the icon, it is highly recommended that you apply the updates. Refer to Section 3.4 Applying Updates for information on applying updates. If you have scheduled updates to be installed,...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website You can use the Red Hat Network website to manage multiple Red Hat Linux systems simultaneously, including viewing Errata Alerts, applying Errata Updates, and installing packages. 4.1. Logging into the RHN Website I...

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40 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website • Your RHN — Obtain a quick overview of your account. It notifies you if your systems need attention, provides a quick link to go directly to them, and displays the most recent Errata Alerts for your account...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 41 • Users — View and manage users for your organization. • User List — List users for your organization. 4.2.1. Errata Alert Icons Throughout Red Hat Network you will see three Errata Alert icons. represent...

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42 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website Tip If you are new to the RHN website, it is recommended that you read Section 4.2 Introduction to the Website to become familiar with the layout and symbols used throughout the website. Figure 4-2. Your Red Hat ...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 43 The Action Summary section provides the following information about events scheduled in the past week: • Recently Failed Actions — Number of scheduled actions that did not succeed. • Pending Actions — Num...

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44 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4.3.2. Your Preferences The Your Preferences page allows you to configure Red Hat Network options, including: • Email Notifications — Determine whether you want to receive email every time an Errata Alert i...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 45 4.3.5.2. Quick Start Guide The Quick Start Guide page contains a brief overview of Red Hat Network and its many features. If you are unfamiliar with RHN, it is recommended you read this guide in its entirety. Top...

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46 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4.4.1. Overview The Overview page provides a summary of your systems, including their status, number of associated Errata and packages, and entitlement level. Clicking on the name of a system takes you to its Sys...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 47 Important If the RHN website identifies package updates for the system, yet the Red Hat Update Agent responds with "Your system is fully updated" when run, a conflict likely exists in the system’s p...

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48 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4.4.2.2. Out of Date The Out of Date page displays the registered systems that have applicable Errata Alerts that have not been applied. 4.4.2.3. Unentitled The Unentitled page displays the registered systems tha...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 49 • Overview — A summary of the system’s details. In addition to the system status message, the Overview subtab contains basic System Info, Subscribed Channels, and System Properties. Clicking the Alter Chann...

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50 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website • List/Remove — Lists installed packages from the system’s software System Profile and enables you to remove them. Click on a package name to view its Package Details page. (Refer to Section 4.6.5.3 Packag...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 51 4.4.3. System Groups The System Groups page allows all RHN Enterprise users to view the System Groups list. Only Organization Administrators may perform the following additional tasks: 1. Create system groups. (R...

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52 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website • — Updates available and recommended • Group Name — The name of the group as configured during its creation. The name should be explicit enough to easily differentiate between it and other groups. Click...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 53 • Target Systems — List of all systems in your organization. This tab enables you to add Enterprise- level systems to the specified system group. Merely select the systems using the checkboxes to the left an...

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54 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website • Remove existing packages — Clicking this link takes you to a list of all the packages installed on the selected systems. Select the packages to be deleted, then click the Remove Packages button. • Groups ...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 55 • Basic — should be used to manage a single Red Hat Linux system. It includes Errata Alerts, Sched- uled Errata Updates, Package Installation, and the Red Hat Update Agent. • Enterprise — should be used t...

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56 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website the checkbox. After making these changes, click the Update Keys button on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. 4.5. Errata If you click the Errata tab on the top navigation bar, the Errata category and links...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 57 Figure 4-5. Errata List Clicking on the Advisory takes you to the Details tab of the Errata Details page. Clicking on the number of associated systems takes you to the Affected Systems tab of the Errata Details p...

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58 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website • To apply a specific Errata Update to one or more Enterprise-level systems, find the update within the Errata lists or by searching. In the table, click on the number of systems affected, which will take you...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 59 4.5.3. Advanced Search The Advanced Search page allows you to search through Errata according to specific criteria, such as summary, advisory, and package name. Type your keyword, select the criterion to search ...

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60 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website Figure 4-6. Software - Relevant Channels 4.6.1.2. All Channels The All Channels page can be retrieved by clicking All below Channels in the left navigation bar. It works identically to the Relevant button with on...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 61 If you are looking for a specific package or a subset of packages, you can use the package filter on the top of the list. Entering a substring to search for will search all the packages in the list for the subs...

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62 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4.6.5. Packages A package is the smallest essential ingredient of any Red Hat Linux system. Packages, commonly known as RPMs because of their oversight by Red Hat Package Manager, are the pieces of software that,...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 63 5. On the Package Details page, click the Download RPM or Download SRPM link on the bottom right-hand corner. 6. Confirm the action. The next step is to install the packages manually. Refer to Section 2.3.5.2 Ma...

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64 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4. Package List Profile Updates — To schedule a package list profile refresh, go to a system list under the Systems category, click on the name of the system, click the Packages tab of the System Details page...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 65 4.7.4. Archived Actions The Archived Actions page displays actions that you have selected to store for review. 4.7.5. Actions List In each page, each row in the list represents a single scheduled event or action ...

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66 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 4.8.1. User List As shown in Figure 4-8, each row in the User List represents a user within your organization. There are three columns of information for each user: • Username — The login name of the user. If...

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 67 4.8.1.2. User Details Clicking on a username displays the User Details page for the individual. This page is divided into five tabs: • Details — The username, first name, last name, email address, and user ...

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68 Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website ...

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Chapter 5. Red Hat Network Daemon The Red Hat Network Daemon (rhnsd) periodically connects to Red Hat Network to check for up- dates and notifications. The daemon, which runs in the background, is typically started from the ini- tialization scripts ...

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70 Chapter 5. Red Hat Network Daemon • the Red Hat Network Daemon is activated and running. You may ensure this by running the follow- ing commands: chkconfig --level 345 rhnsd on service rhnsd start If these are correct and your systems still indi...

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Chapter 6. Using Red Hat Network with Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 6.2 shipped with a program named Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). However, this version of the Red Hat Update Agent can not be used to connect to Red Hat Network to receive package ...

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72 Chapter 6. Using Red Hat Network with Red Hat Linux 6.2 ...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Before you begin using Red Hat Network, you need to create a username, password, and System Profile. The Red Hat Network Registration Client walks you through this process. Warning Only systems running ...

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74 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Figure 7-1. Red Hat Network Registration Client Configuration To start the command line version, use the command: rhn_register --nox --configure It has more configuration options than the graphical ...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 75 7.2. Starting the Red Hat Network Registration Client You must be root to register a system with RHN. If you start the Red Hat Network Registration Client as a standard user, you will be prompted to e...

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76 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Figure 7-3. Warning: This System Already Registered The opening screen for the Red Hat Network Registration Client gives you a brief overview of the services available and the steps required to regist...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 77 Figure 7-5. Red Hat Privacy Statement 7.3. Registering a User Account Before you can create a System Profile, you must create a user account. The only required information in this section is a unique...

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78 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Note If you are already a member of redhat.com, you can use the same user name and password. How- ever, you will still need to continue with the registration process to create your System Profile. Yo...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 79 the system will be added to the organization’s Red Hat Network account. Your Organization Admin- istrator can then create your user account through the Users category of the RHN website. Refer to Se...

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80 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Figure 7-8. System Profile - Hardware 7.4.2. Software System Profile The software System Profile consists of a list of RPM packages for which you wish to receive notifi- cations. The Red Hat Netwo...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 81 Figure 7-10. RPM Package Information 7.4.2.2. Choosing RPM Packages to Exclude from the System Profile By default, all RPM packages in your RPM database are included in your System Profile to be up-...

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82 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Figure 7-11. Choose which RPM Packages to Exclude from System Profile 7.5. Finishing Registration As seen in Figure 7-12, the last step of registration is to confirm that you want to send your Syste...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 83 Figure 7-12. Finished Collecting Information for System Profile Figure 7-13 shows the progress bar you will see while your profile is being sent. This process may take some time depending on your co...

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84 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client Figure 7-14. Registration Finished 7.6. Entitling Your System Now that you have registered your system, it must be entitled before you can receive updated pack- ages. In other words, you must subscrib...

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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client 85 screens and fields in both versions. Thus, if you are using the text mode version, you can still follow the instructions that begin in Section 7.2 Starting the Red Hat Network Registration Client. Fi...

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86 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration Client ...

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Glossary A Action A task that is scheduled by a system administrator using Red Hat Network to be performed on one or more client systems. For example, an action can be scheduled to update the kernel packages on all the systems within a selected group...

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88 Glossary C Channel A channel is a list of Red Hat Linux packages. Channels are used to choose packages to be installed from client systems. Every client system must be subscribed to one Base Channel and can be subscribed to one or more Child Chann...

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Glossary 89 Entitled Server A server that is subscribed to Software Manager . Because the server is entitled, the Software Manager interface can be used to manage its packages. Errata Information published by Red Hat describing security fixes, bug �...

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90 Glossary Red Hat Network Daemon The RHN client daemon (rhnsd) that periodically polls Red Hat Network for updates and noti- fications. Red Hat Network Registration Client The RHN client application (rhn_register) that collects information about t...

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Glossary 91 Service Level A Red Hat Network subscription service. Different service levels offer different features of RHN. There are two service levels currently available: RHN Basic and RHN Enterprise. Software Manager The name of the first Servic...

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92 Glossary ...