Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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Appendix A. Command Line Config
Management Tools
In addition to the options provided in the RHN website, Red Hat Network offers two command
line tools for managing a system's configuration files: the Red Hat Network Configuration
Client and the Red Hat Network Configuration Manager. There is a complementary Red Hat
Network Actions Control tool that is used to enable and disable configuration management on
client systems. If you do not yet have these these tools installed, they can be found within the
RHN Tools child channel for your operating system.
Tip
Keep in mind, whenever a configuration file is deployed via RHN, a backup of the
previous file including its full path is made in the
/var/lib/rhncfg/backups/
directory on the affected system. The backup retains its filename but has a
.rhn-cfg-backup
extension appended.
1. Red Hat Network Actions Control
The Red Hat Network Actions Control (
rhn-actions-control
) application is used to enable
and disable configuration management of a system. Client systems cannot be managed in this
fashion by default. This tool allows Satellite Administrators to enable or disable specific modes
of allowable actions such as: deploying a configuration file onto the system, uploading a file
from the system, diffing what is currently managed on a system and what is available, or
allowing running arbitrary remote commands. These various modes are enabled/disabled by
placing/removing files and directories in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/
directory. Due to the default permissions on the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/
directory, RHN Actions
Control will most likely have to be run by someone with root access.
1.1. General command line options
There is a
man
page available, as there are for most command line tools, though the use of this
tool is simple enough to describe here briefly. Simply decide what RHN scheduled actions
should be enabled for use by system administrators. The following options enable the various
scheduled action modes:
Option Description
--enable-deploy Allow rhncfg-client to deploy files.
--enable-diff Allow rhncfg-client to diff files.
--enable-upload Allow rhncfg-client to upload files.
--enable-mtime-upload Allow rhncfg-client to upload mtime.
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