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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.
6.4.2.6.1.4. System Details Details 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.
6.4.2.6.1.5. System Details Details Custom Info —
Completely customizable information about the system. Unlike a note, information included here is
more formal and can be searched upon. For instance, you may decide to identify an asset tag for each
system. To do this, you must first create an asset key within the
Custom System Info
page. Refer
to Section 6.4.9 Custom System Info — for instructions. Once the key exists, you may assign a
value to it by clicking create new value here. Click the name of the key in the resulting list and enter
a value for it in the Description field, such as "Example#456." Then click the
Update Key
button.
6.4.2.6.1.6. System Details Details Reactivation —
A System Profile-specific activation key. This allows you to create an activation key encompassing this
system’s ID, history, groups, and channels. You may then use this key only once with the
rhnreg_ks
command line utility to re-register this system and regain all Red Hat Network settings. Refer to
Section 2.5 Registering with Activation Keys for instructions. Unlike typical activation keys, which
are not associated with a specific system ID, keys created here do not show up within the Activation
Keys
page.
Warning
When kickstarting a system with its existing RHN profile, it will use the system-specific activation key
created here to reregister the system and return its other RHN settings. For this reason, you should
not regenerate, delete, or use this key (with
rhnreg_ks
) while a profile-based kickstart is in progress.
If you do, the kickstart will fail.
6.4.2.6.1.7. System Details Details Remote Command —
The method for running a remote command on the system. To allow remote commands to be run on
the client through RHN, first install the latest
rhncfg*
packages available within the RHN Provision-
ing child channel for the system. These may already be installed if you kickstarted the system with
configuration management functionality.
Next, create the necessary directory on the target system:
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script
Then create a
run
file in that directory to act as a flag to RHN signaling permission to allow remote
commands:
touch /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script/run