Red Hat NETWORK 3.2 - PROVISIONING, Reference Manual

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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.
Activation Key
RHN Management and Provisioning customers can generate activation keys through the RHN
website. Each unique key can then be used to register a RHL system, entitle the system to
RHN, subscribe the system to specific channels, and subscribe the system to RHN system groups
through the command line utility
rhnreg_ks
from the
rhn_register
package.
B
Base Channel
A base channel is a type of Channel that consists of a list of packages based on a specific
architecture and Red Hat Linux release. For example, all the packages in Red Hat Linux 9 for
the x86 architecture make a base channel.
Bug Fix Alert
An Errata Alert that pertains to a bug fix.
Bugzilla
Bugzilla is an online application (http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla) that allows users to commu-
nicate directly with the developers. From Bugzilla, users can submit bug reports and feature
requests for Red Hat Linux and related open source packages.
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 Channel .