Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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Appendix B. RHN API Access
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follows the "=" symbol, as part of a string that resembles the following: "details.pxt?sgid=334958".
Note that the member parameter within the
set_group_membership
method requires only
yes
or
no
as input to make the association.
B.6. Channel Labels
The architecture of a channel is not always clear from the channel label. Below is a list that shows the
correspondence between channel labels and the official title of the architecture they serve.
Channel Label Platform
channel-i386-sun-solaris i386 Solaris
channel-ia32 IA-32
channel-ia64 IA-64
channel-sparc Sparc
channel-alpha Alpha
channel-s390 IBM S/390
channel-s390x IBM System z
channel-iSeries IBM eServer System i
channel-pSeries IBM eServer System p
channel-x86_64 AMD64 and Intel EM64T
channel-ppc PPC
channel-sparc-sun-solaris Sparc Solaris
Table B.1. Channel Labels
This is particularly necessary to know for the channel.software.create method.
B.7. Sample API Script
The following sample script depicts how to construct an RHN API client. Review the comments and
links for a full discussion of the calls made.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Frontier::Client;
use Data::Dumper;
############################################################################
# This is a sample script for use of the experimental RHN Management
APIs. #
# The API is currently available using XMLRPC only, which is described in
#
# depth at:
#
#
#
# http://www.xmlrpc.com/
#