User manual REDHAT NETWORK 3.5 MANAGEMENT REFERENCE GUIDE

[. . . ] Red Hat Network 3. 5 Management Reference Guide Red Hat Network 3. 5: 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. 5-Print-RHI (2004-07-23T11:19) 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. [. . . ] 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. This means packages associated with Errata will be updated without any user intervention. Customers should note that Red Hat does not recommend the use of the auto-update feature for production systems because conflicts between packages and environments can cause system failures. The Red Hat Network Daemon must be enabled on the systems for this feature to work. · · · Hardware -- Detailed information about the system, including networking, BIOS, storage, and other devices. This appears only if you selected to include the hardware profile for this machine during registration. If the hardware profile looks incomplete or outdated, click the Schedule Hardware Refresh button to schedule a Hardware Profile update for your system. The next time the RHN Daemon connects to RHN, it will update your System Profile with the latest list of hardware. Notes -- A place to create notes about the system. To add a new note, click the create new note button, type a subject and details, and click the Create button. To modify a note, click on its subject in the list of notes, make your changes, and click the Update button. To remove a note, click on its subject in the list of notes and then click the delete note button. Connection -- The system's path to the package repository. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]