Red Hat NETWORK 3.5 - PROVISIONING, Reference Manual

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Groups
— Tools to create groups and manage group membership. These functions are limited to
Organization Administrators. To add a new group, click create new group on the top-right corner.
In the resulting page, type its name and description in the identified fields and click the
Create
Group
button. To add or remove the selected systems in any of the system groups, toggle the
appropriate radio buttons and click the
Alter Membership
button.
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Channels — Options to manage channel associations.
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Channel Subscriptions
— To subscribe or unsubscribe the selected systems in any of the chan-
nels, toggle the appropriate radio buttons and click the Alter Subscriptions button.
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Config Channels
— Like the same subtab within the
System Details
page, this tab can be used to
set the subscription and rank of configuration channels that may be associated with the systems.
Enter numbers in the Rank fields to establish the order in which channels are used. Channels
with no numeric value are not associated with the systems. Your local configuration channel will
always override all other channels. When satisfied, click the
Update
button.
These channels are created in the Manage Config Channels interface within the Channels cat-
egory. Refer to Section 4.6.6 Manage Config Channels for instructions.
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Base Channel Alteration
— Channel Administrators may use this tab to change the base chan-
nels the selected systems are subscribed to. Systems will be unsubscribed from all channels and
subscribed to the new base channels. For this reason, this should be done with caution. Select the
new base channel from the pulldown menus and click the Change Base Channels button.
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Provisioning — Options for provisioning systems.
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Kickstart
— Use this subtab to re-install the selected Provisioning-entitled systems. To schedule
a kickstart, select a distribution, identify the type (IP address or manual), and click Continue .
Then finish choosing from the options available on the subsequent screen and click the
Schedule
Kickstart button.
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Tag Systems
— Use this subtab to to add meaningful descriptions to the most recent snapshots
of your selected systems. To tag the most recent system snapshots, enter a descriptive term in the
Tag name
field, and click the
Tag Current Snapshots
button.
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Rollback — Use this subtab to rollback selected Provisioning-entitled systems to previous snap-
shots marked with a tag. Click the name of the tag, verify the systems to be reverted, and click
the Rollback Systems button.
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Remote Command
— Use this subtab to issue remote commands on selected Provisioning-
entitled systems. You must have created a
run
file on the client systems for this function to be
allowed. Refer to the description of the
Configuration
subtab of the
Channels
tab for instruc-
tions. You may then identify a specific user, group, and timeout period, as well as the script
itself on this page. Select a date and time to begin attempting the command, and click
Schedule
Remote Command .
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Misc
— Links to update System Profiles and preferences for the system set:
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System Profile Updates — Clicking Update Hardware Profile , then the Confirm Refresh
button schedules a hardware profile update. Clicking
Update Package Profile
, then the
Confirm
Refresh button schedules a package profile update.
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Custom System Information
— Clicking
Set a custom value
then the name of a key allows
you to provide values for all selected systems. Enter the information and click the Set Values
button. Clicking
Remove a custom value
then the name of a key allows you to remove values
for all selected systems. Click the Remove Values button to finalize the deletion.