Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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Option Description
-v, --verbose Increase the amount of output detail. Displays
differences in the mode, owner, and group
permissions for the specified config file.
-h, --help Show help message and exit
Table A.3.
rhncfg-client verify
options
3. Red Hat Network Configuration Manager
Unlike the Red Hat Network Configuration Client, the Red Hat Network Configuration
Manager (
rhncfg-manager
) is designed to maintain RHN's central repository of config files and
channels, not those located on client systems. This tool offers a command line alternative to the
configuration management features within the RHN website, as well as the ability to script some
or all of the related maintenance.
It is intended for use by Config Administrators and requires an RHN username and password
that has the appropriate permission set. The username may be specified in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhncfg-manager.conf
or in the [rhncfg-manager] section of
~/.rhncfgrc
.
When the Red Hat Network Configuration Manager is run as root, it attempts to pull in
needed configuration values from the Red Hat Update Agent. When run as a user other than
root, you may have to make configuration changes within the
~/.rhncfgrc
file. The session file
is cached in
~/.rhncfg-manager-session
to prevent logging in for every command.
The default timeout for the Red Hat Network Configuration Manager is 30 minutes. To alter
this, add the
server.session_lifetime
option and new value to the
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf
file
on the server running the manager, like so:
server.session_lifetime = 120
The Red Hat Network Configuration Manager offers these primary modes: add,
create-channel, diff, diff-revisions, download-channel, get, list, list-channels, remove,
remove-channel, revisions, update, and upload-channel.
Each mode offers its own set of options, which can be seen by issuing the following command:
rhncfg-manager mode --help
Replace
mode
with the name of the mode to be inspected:
rhncfg-manager diff-revisions --help
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