Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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4.4.8. System Set Manager # Groups —
Tools to create groups and manage group membership. These functions are limited to Satellite
Administrators and System Group 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.
4.4.9. System Set Manager # Channels —
Options to manage channel associations through the following subtabs:
4.4.9.1. System Set Manager # Channels # Channel Subscriptions —
To subscribe or unsubscribe the selected systems in any of the channels, toggle the appropriate
checkboxes and click the Alter Subscriptions button. Keep in mind that subscribing to a
channel uses a channel entitlement for each system in the selected group. If too few
entitlements are available, some systems fail to subscribe. Systems must subscribe to a base
channel before subscribing to a child channel.
4.4.10. System Set Manager # Configuration —
Like the options within the System Details # Channels # Configuration tab, the subtabs here
can be used to subscribe the selected systems to configuration channels and deploy and
compare the configuration files on the systems. The channels are created in the Manage
Config Channels interface within the Channels category. Refer to Section 7.2, “Overview” for
channel creation instructions.
To manage the configuration of a system, install the latest
rhncfg*
packages. Refer to
Section 7.1, “Preparing Systems for Config Management” for instructions on enabling and
disabling scheduled actions for a system.
4.4.10.1. System Set Manager # Configuration # Deploy Files —
Use this subtab to distribute configuration files from your central repository on RHN to each of
the selected systems. The table lists the configuration files associated with any of the selected
systems. Clicking its system count displays the systems already subscribed to the file.
To subscribe the selected systems to the available configuration files, select the checkbox for
each desired file. When done, click Deploy Configuration and schedule the action. Note that
the files deployed are of the latest version at the time of scheduling and do not account for
versions that may appear before the action takes place.
4.4.10.2. System Set Manager # Configuration # Compare Files —
System Set Manager —
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