Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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you must choose to receive email notification sin the Your Preferences page of the Your
RHN category.
Auto-errata update
If this box is checked, available errata are automatically applied to the system when it
checks in. This action takes place without user intervention. Customers should note that
Red Hat does not recommend the use of the auto-update feature for production systems
because conflicts between packages and environments can cause system failures. The Red
Hat Network Daemon must be enabled on the system for this feature to work.
Description
By default, this text box records the operating system, release, and architecture of the
system when it first registers. You may edit this information to include anything you like.
The remaining fields record the physical address at which the system is stored. To confirm any
changes to these fields, click the Update Properties button.
Note
Many of these properties can be set for multiple systems at once through the
System Set Manager interface. Refer to Section 4.4, “System Set Manager —
” for details.
4.2.9.1.3. System Details # Details # Remote Command —
This subtab allows you to run a remote command on the system if the system possesses a
Provisioning entitlement. Before doing so, you must first configure the system to accept such
commands.
• First, subscribe the system to the RHN Tools channel and use
up2date
to install the
rhncfg
,
rhncfg-client
, and
rhncfg-actions
packages.
up2date rhncfg rhncfg-client rhncfg-actions
• Log into the system as root and add the following file to the local RHN configuration directory:
allowed-actions/scripts/run
.
• Create the necessary directory on the target system:
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script
• Create an empty
run
file in that directory to act as a flag to RHN signaling permission to
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