Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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This tab allows you to manage custom software packages owned by your organization. You
may view a list of all custom software or view only those packages in a selected custom
channel. To select the channel whose custom packages you wish to view, select the channel
from the drop-down menu and click the View button.
7. Configuration
This tab is the portal to managing your configuration channels and files, whether they are
centrally managed or limited to a single system. You must be a Configuration Administrator or
an Satellite Administrator to see the Configuration tab. In addition, you must have at least one
Provisioning entitlement, or the tab does not appear.
Centrally-managed files are those that are available to multiple systems; changes to a single file
in a central configuration channel can affect many systems. In addition, there are local
configuration channels. Each system with a Provisioning entitlement has a local configuration
channel (also referred to as an override channel) and a Sandbox channel. Both central and
local configuration management are discussed in detail later in this chapter.
7.1. Preparing Systems for Config Management
For a system to have its configuration managed through RHN, it must have the appropriate tools
and
config-enable
file installed. These tools may already be installed on your system,
especially if you kickstarted the system with configuration management functionality. If not, they
can be found within the RHN Tools child channel for your distribution. Download and install the
latest
rhncfg*
packages. They are:
•
rhncfg
— The base libraries and functions needed by all
rhncfg-*
packages.
•
rhncfg-actions
— The code required to run configuration actions scheduled via the RHN
website.
•
rhncfg-client
— A command line interface to the client features of the RHN Configuration
Management system.
•
rhncfg-management
— A command line interface used to manage RHN configuration.
Next, you must enable your system to schedule configuration actions. This is done using the
rhn-actions-control
command on the client system. This command is included in the
rhncfg-actions
RPM. The RHN Actions Control (
rhn-actions-control
) enables or disables
specific modes of allowable actions. Refer to Section 1, “Red Hat Network Actions Control”
for instructions.
7.2. Overview
The Configuration Overview page allows you to assess at a glance the status of your
configuration files and the systems that use them.
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