User manual REDHAT NETWORK 3.1 MANAGEMENT REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] Red Hat Network 3. 1 Management Reference Guide Red Hat Network 3. 1: Management Reference Guide Copyright © 2001 - 2004 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 Park NC 27709 USA RHNent(EN)-3. 1-Print-RHI (2004-01-22T17:21) Copyright © 2004 by Red Hat, Inc. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1. 0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www. opencontent. org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Most importantly, a system may be locked by clicking the Lock system link near the bottom-left corner of the page. This prohibits the scheduling of any action through RHN that would affect the system, including package updates and system reboots. To undo this, click the Unlock system link in the same location. The packages will be updated by the RHN Daemon. You must have the RHN Daemon enabled on your systems. Refer to Chapter 5 Red Hat Network Daemon for more details. The Details tab contains the following subsets of information: · 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 Channel Subscriptions link takes you to the Channels tab, while clicking the Edit these properties link takes you to the Properties subtab. See the following sections for more information. Properties -- The profile name, entitlement level, notification choice, daily summary, autoErrata update, and physical location of the system, including street address, city, state, country, building, room, and rack. To modify this information, make your changes and click the Update Properties button. Note that many of these properties can be set for multiple systems at once through the System Set Manager interface. Refer to Section 4. 4. 4 System Set Manager for details. The following properties deserve additional explanation: · · Receive Notifications of Updates/Errata -- This setting keeps you abreast of all advisories pertaining to the system. Anytime an update is produced and released for the system, a notification is sent via email. Include system in daily summary report calculations -- This setting includes the system in a daily summary of system events. (By default, all Management systems are included in the summary. ) These are actions affecting packages, such as scheduled Errata Updates, and system reboots or failures to check in. In addition to including the system here, you must choose to receive email notifications in the Your Preferences page of the Your RHN category. Refer to Section 4. 3. 2 Your Preferences for instructions. Note that RHN will send these summaries only to verified email addresses. Automatic application of relevant errata -- This setting allows you have all Errata Updates automatically applied to a system. [. . . ] Use the Red Hat Update Agent Configuration Tool to configure its preferences, including whether to install the packages after they are downloaded. RPM A software package manager that was developed by Red Hat. It can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and uninstall software packages. All software updates from RHN are delivered in RPM format. [. . . ]