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Appendix B. 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.
B.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.
B.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.
--enable-all Allow rhncfg-client to do everything.
--enable-run Enable script.run
--disable-deploy Disable deployment.
--disable-diff Disable diff
--disable-upload Disable upload