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Chapter 4. Red Hat Update Agent

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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

Save the text file and import it into your keyring using the method applicable to your version of RPM.

4.3.2. Manual Package Installation

If you chose to download, but not install, the software updates with the 

Red Hat Update Agent

 or from

the RHN website, you must install them manually using RPM.

To install them, change to the directory that contains the downloaded packages. The default directory
is 

/var/spool/up2date

. Type the command 

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

. When the packages finish

installing, you can delete them if you wish. You do not need them anymore.

After installing the packages, you must update your System Profile so that you are not prompted to
download them again. Refer to 

Section 4.3.3, “Synchronizing Your System Profile”

 for details.

4.3.3. Synchronizing Your System Profile

If you configured the 

Red Hat Update Agent

 to install the latest packages, the System Profile stored

by Red Hat Network is updated after the packages are installed. However, if you only download
the latest RPM packages using the 

Red Hat Update Agent

, download the RPM packages from

the website, or upgrade/install/remove RPM packages yourself, your System Profile is not updated
automatically. You must send your updated System Profile to the RHN Servers.

To synchronize the RPM package list on your local Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 system and on Red
Hat Network, run the command:

Summary of Contents for NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT

Page 1: ...Red Hat Network Satellite 5 3 0 Reference Guide Red Hat Network Satellite ...

Page 2: ...r later the latest version of the OPL is presently available at http www opencontent org openpub Red Hat and the Red Hat Shadow Man logo are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and other countries All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606 2072 USA Phone 1 919 754 3700 Phone 888 733 4281 Fax 1 919 754...

Page 3: ...date Agent 21 4 2 Registration 24 4 2 1 Registering a User Account 25 4 2 2 Activate 27 4 2 3 Channels 29 4 2 4 Packages Flagged to be Skipped 31 4 2 5 Available Package Updates 31 4 2 6 Retrieving Packages 33 4 2 7 Installing Packages 34 4 3 Command Line Version 36 4 3 1 Installing the Red Hat GPG key 39 4 3 2 Manual Package Installation 40 4 3 3 Synchronizing Your System Profile 40 4 3 4 Log Fil...

Page 4: ...s Selected 60 7 1 6 Lists 60 7 2 Logging into the RHN Website 61 7 3 Overview 62 7 3 1 Your Account 64 7 3 2 Your Preferences 65 7 3 3 Locale Preferences 65 7 3 4 Subscription Management 66 7 3 5 Organization Trusts 67 7 4 Systems 67 7 4 1 Overview 68 7 4 2 Systems 68 7 4 3 System Groups 86 7 4 4 System Set Manager 89 7 4 5 Advanced Search 96 7 4 6 Activation Keys 98 7 4 7 Stored Profiles 101 7 4 ...

Page 5: ... 7 7 2 Overview 130 7 7 3 Configuration Channels 131 7 7 4 Configuration Files 132 7 7 5 Locally Managed Files 133 7 7 6 Systems 135 7 8 Schedule 136 7 8 1 Pending Actions 136 7 8 2 Failed Actions 137 7 8 3 Completed Actions 137 7 8 4 Archived Actions 137 7 8 5 Actions List 137 7 9 Users 138 7 9 1 User List Active 139 7 9 2 User List Deactivated 144 7 9 3 User List All 144 7 10 Monitoring 144 7 10...

Page 6: ...ql package 160 8 4 Notifications 161 8 4 1 Creating Notification Methods 161 8 4 2 Receiving Notifications 161 8 4 3 Redirecting Notifications 162 8 4 4 Filtering Notifications 163 8 4 5 Deleting Notification Methods 163 8 5 Probes 163 8 5 1 Managing Probes 164 8 5 2 Establishing Thresholds 164 8 5 3 Monitoring the RHN Server 165 8 6 Troubleshooting 165 8 6 1 Examining Probes with rhn catalog 165 ...

Page 7: ...Satellite Web Interface 192 10 3 4 Installing Software Via Yum From the Virtual System 192 10 3 5 Restarting Guests when Host Reboots 193 10 3 6 Deleting Virtual Systems 193 11 Cobbler 195 11 1 Cobbler Requirements 195 11 1 1 Using cobbler check 195 11 1 2 Configuring Cobbler with etc cobbler settings 196 11 1 3 Cobbler and DHCP 196 11 1 4 Xinetd and TFTP 197 11 1 5 Configuring SELinux and IPTable...

Page 8: ...ion Client 238 B 2 1 Listing Config Files 238 B 2 2 Getting a Config File 239 B 2 3 Viewing Config Channels 239 B 2 4 Differentiating between Config Files 239 B 2 5 Verifying Config Files 240 B 3 Red Hat Network Configuration Manager 240 B 3 1 Creating a Config Channel 241 B 3 2 Adding Files to a Config Channel 241 B 3 3 Differentiating between Latest Config Files 242 B 3 4 Differentiating between...

Page 9: ...5 4 Linux Inodes 263 D 5 5 Linux Interface Traffic 264 D 5 6 Linux Load 264 D 5 7 Linux Memory Usage 265 D 5 8 Linux Process Counts by State 265 D 5 9 Linux Process Count Total 266 D 5 10 Linux Process Health 266 D 5 11 Linux Process Running 267 D 5 12 Linux Swap Usage 268 D 5 13 Linux TCP Connections by State 268 D 5 14 Linux Users 269 D 5 15 Linux Virtual Memory 269 D 6 LogAgent 270 D 6 1 LogAge...

Page 10: ...83 D 9 9 Oracle Index Extents 284 D 9 10 Oracle Library Cache 284 D 9 11 Oracle Locks 285 D 9 12 Oracle Redo Log 285 D 9 13 Oracle Table Extents 286 D 9 14 Oracle Tablespace Usage 286 D 9 15 Oracle TNS Ping 287 D 10 RHN Satellite 287 D 10 1 RHN Satellite Disk Space 287 D 10 2 RHN Satellite Execution Time 288 D 10 3 RHN Satellite Interface Traffic 288 D 10 4 RHN Satellite Latency 288 D 10 5 RHN Sat...

Page 11: ...ient before starting the Red Hat Update Agent Refer to Appendix A Red Hat Network Registration Client for instructions Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 4 and 5 or later register with the Red Hat Update Agent Refer to Chapter 4 Red Hat Update Agent for instructions For an overview of RHN Satellite offerings please review the descriptions available at https www redhat com systems_managemen...

Page 12: ... If you would like to make suggestions about the Red Hat Network Satellite Reference Guide please submit a report in Bugzilla http bugzilla redhat com bugzilla against the component Documentation_Reference_Guide Product Red Hat Network Satellite Version 520 ...

Page 13: ...an RHN Proxy Server Red Hat Network Daemon the Red Hat Network Registration Client for systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 1 only The Red Hat Update Agent up2date provides your initial connection to Red Hat Network Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and newer systems use the Red Hat Update Agent to register with RHN Registration involves creating a unique RHN username and password probing the hardw...

Page 14: ...ing customers of Red Hat Network receive web based support for their RHN questions Errata Notification Multiple Systems Subscriptions for multiple systems means Errata notification for Errata to all of those systems Note that only one email is distributed per each Erratum regardless of the number of systems affected Errata Updates Multiple Systems Get quick updates for multiple systems with an eas...

Page 15: ...do it for you in seconds 1 3 Provisioning As the highest management service level RHN Provisioning encompasses all of the features offered in the RHN Update and Management subscription levels It is designed to allow you to deploy and manage your network of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems users and system groups Like Management Provisioning is based upon an organization It takes this concept a ste...

Page 16: ... state Each probe notification can be sent to a different method or address Central Status The results of all probes are summarized in a single Probe Status page with the systems affected broken down by state Reporting By selecting a probe and identifying the particular metric and a range of time you can generate graphs and event logs depicting precisely how the probe has performed This can be ins...

Page 17: ...t Quality Assurance Team tests and verifies all packages before they are added to the Red Hat Errata list and Red Hat Network 1 7 Before You Begin By default all software packages necessary to access Red Hat Network are installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions However if you chose not to install them during the installation process you must obtain the Red Hat Update Agent up2date and ...

Page 18: ...nux 2 1 users need Red Hat Network Registration Client If you prefer to use the command line versions the two packages ending in gnome are not required Package Name Description rhn_register Provides the Red Hat Network Registration Client program and the text mode interface rhn_register gnome Provides the GNOME interface graphical version for the Red Hat Network Registration Client runs if the X W...

Page 19: ...e the command rhn_register from the command line as root If you have never registered you can start rhn_register by selecting Applications the main menu on the panel System Tools Package Updater You will be asked to enter the root password The Package Updater when run on a system that has not yet been registered triggers rhn_register if there is no etc sysconfig rhn systemid file on the system If ...

Page 20: ...Software Updates The Registering for Software Updates page summarizes the steps involved in the registration process To learn more about the benefits of Hosted and Satellite press the Why Should I Connect to RHN button Otherwise press the Forward button to continue ...

Page 21: ... and enter the URL of your Satellite or Proxy into the Red Hat Network Location field If you connect to the internet through an HTTP Proxy press the Advanced Network Configuration button In the subsequent pop up window use the appropriate fields for your HTTP proxy if your proxy requires authentication enter the username and password here When finished press the Close button to continue You are re...

Page 22: ...fields that are marked with an asterisk and any other information you wish to enter Press the Create New Login button to create your new login Note If you are registering to RHN Hosted as part of an organization please do not create a new account through this screen Contact your Organization Administrator and request that they create an account for you then provide that information in the Enter Yo...

Page 23: ... so allows RHN to automatically subscribe your system to the base and child channels most appropriate to your system If you wish you may press either the View Hardware Profile or View Package Profile button to view the information that rhn_register uploads to RHN or Satellite in this step Note This automatic registration does not automatically subscribe your system to optional child channels such ...

Page 24: ... 2 6 Review System Subscription Details The Review System Subscription Details page displays the base and child channel information to which your system has been subscribed Take a moment to review the channels and then press Forward to continue ...

Page 25: ...not have any entitlements available for this system this final page indicates that the registration has failed This does not mean that the system profile has not been stored with RHN only that you will not receive automatic updates without manual intervention You can always login to the RHN or Satellite Web interface and either purchase additional entitlements or get an entitlement from your Satel...

Page 26: ...face of the command line version of rhn_register has the same configuration screens as the graphical desktop version However to navigate the screen use the directional keys on the keyboard to move left or right and highlight the selections Press the Space Bar to select an action Press Tab to move through different navigational elements such as text boxes checkboxes which are marked with an x when ...

Page 27: ...ls on the updated packages such as bug fix information security alerts enhancements and more 3 1 Using the Package Updater To start the Package Updater from the desktop open Applications the main menu on the panel System Tools Package Updater If you are at a shell prompt window type pup to open the Package Updater Figure 3 1 Package Updater Interface If there are multiple package updates they will...

Page 28: ...endencies and notify you when a package must be installed to meet a dependency for an updated package Figure 3 2 Package Dependency Click Continue to accept the dependency and resume the update If this is the first time using the Package Updater the program will prompt you to imort the Red Hat GPG security key that verifies that a package has been signed and is certified for Red Hat Enterprise Lin...

Page 29: ...cks for updates from the RHN or Satellite server and will alert users when a new update is available Figure 3 5 Package Updater Applet The Package Updater Applet stays in the notification tray of the desktop panel and checks for new updates periodically The applet also allows you to perform a few package maintenance tasks from the applet by clicking the notification icon and choosing from the foll...

Page 30: ...nly used yum commands For a complete list of available yum commands refer to man yum yum install package_name Used to install the latest version of a package or group of packages If no package matches the specified package name s they are assumed to be a shell wildcard and any matches are then installed yum update package_name Used to update the specified packages to the latest available version I...

Page 31: ...yum Commands 19 yum localinstall absolute path to filename Used when using yum to install a package located locally in the machine ...

Page 32: ...20 ...

Page 33: ...te Agent instructions Important You must use Red Hat Update Agent Version 2 5 4 or higher to upgrade your kernel automatically It installs the updated kernel and configures LILO or GRUB to boot the new kernel the next time the system is rebooted To ensure that you are running the latest version execute the command up2date up2date If you do not have the latest version installed this command updates...

Page 34: ...configured package directory The default location is var spool up2date This option is useful if you do not have enough space in the configured location dbpath dir Specify an alternate RPM database to use temporarily Table 4 1 Graphical Update Agent Options The first time you run the Red Hat Update Agent two dialog boxes appear that you will not see in subsequent startups Configure Proxy Server and...

Page 35: ...cond dialog box to appear prompts you to install the Red Hat GPG key as shown in Figure 4 2 Install GPG Key This key is used to verify the packages you download for security purposes Click Yes to install the key and you will not see this message again Figure 4 2 Install GPG Key ...

Page 36: ...t you should take caution when registering systems By default all systems registered with the Red Hat Update Agent end up in the Ungrouped section of systems visible only to Satellite Administrators To ensure you retain management of these systems Red Hat recommends that your organization create an activation key associated with a specific system group and grant you permissions to that group You m...

Page 37: ...utton to do so Red Hat is committed to protecting your privacy The information gathered during the registration process is used to create a System Profile which is essential to receiving update notifications about your system When finished click OK Those users that have created a Red Hat login previously may enter their username and password and click the Forward button to continue Users that have...

Page 38: ...d identify the methods by which you may be reached Your username has the following restrictions Cannot contain any spaces Cannot contain the characters or Is not case sensitive thereby eliminating the possibility of duplicate usernames differing only by capitalization In addition the following restrictions apply to both your username and password Must be at least four characters long Cannot contai...

Page 39: ... insights and Red Hat news When finished click Forward Figure 4 5 Create a User Account 4 2 2 Activate The Activation screen allows you to select various details of your registration If you have a subscription number enter it in the appropriate field If not select the Use one of my existing active subscriptions radio button In the Connect Your System option group select whether to send a hardware ...

Page 40: ...packages listed in the RPM database on your system and then allows you to customize the list by deselecting packages To see the details of the information gathered from your system click the Details button next to the profile When finished click OK If you uncheck the box to the left of the profile that information is not sent to RHN Note If you do not send a Software Profile this system will recei...

Page 41: ...t next displays all package channels to which you have access The channels you select from this screen must match the base operating system of the system you are registering if any child channels are available such as the RHEL AS v 4 for x86 Extras channel in the figure you may select them as well Additional information regarding the selected channel is displayed in the Channel Information pane Wh...

Page 42: ... Figure 4 9 Fetching package list Note If the version of up2date on your system is older than the one in your selected channel the Red Hat Update Agent asks whether you would like to update it If you agree the only package that will be updated is the up2date package This is equivalent to executing the up2date up2date command from a shell prompt Once the updated process has completed the Red Hat Up...

Page 43: ...ification Tool Refer to Chapter 6 Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool for addition information Make your selections and click Forward to continue Figure 4 10 Packages Flagged to be Skipped 4 2 5 Available Package Updates The Red Hat Update Agent next displays all available updates except those you chose to skip in the previous screen Select those you wish to download and click Forward to conti...

Page 44: ...Chapter 4 Red Hat Update Agent 32 Figure 4 11 Available Package Updates ...

Page 45: ...equirements of each RPM are met If any additional packages are required Red Hat Update Agent displays an error message Click OK to continue Once all dependencies are met Red Hat Update Agent retrieves the packages from RHN As the packages are downloaded they are temporarily stored in var spool up2date When all packages have been downloaded click Forward to continue ...

Page 46: ...es via the Red Hat Update Agent skip to Section 4 3 2 Manual Package Installation for further instructions If you configured the Red Hat Update Agent to install the packages the default setting the installation process begins The progress of installing each package as well as the total progress is displayed When the packages have been installed as seen in Figure 4 14 Installing Packages click Forw...

Page 47: ...alling Packages When the Red Hat Update Agent has finished downloading the desired packages and installing them if you chose the install option it displays the screen in Figure 4 15 All Finished Click Finish to exit the Red Hat Update Agent ...

Page 48: ... not to display the graphical interface with the following command up2date nox The command line version of the Red Hat Update Agent allows you to perform advanced functions or to perform actions with little or no interaction For example the following command updates your system with no interaction It downloads the newer packages and installs them if you configured it to do so up2date u The command...

Page 49: ...p lists firstboot Pop up in the center of the screen for Firstboot get Fetch the package specified without resolving dependencies get source Fetch the source package specified without resolving dependencies gpg flags Show the flags with which GPG is invoked such as the keyring hardware Update this system s hardware profile on RHN i install Install packages after they are downloaded This argument t...

Page 50: ...ow the package installation dialog in GUI mode solvedeps dependencies Find download and install the packages necessary to resolve dependencies src Download source packages as well as binary RPMs tmpdir directory Temporarily override the configured package directory The default location is var spool up2date This option is useful if you do not have enough space in the configured location u update Up...

Page 51: ... Starting with version 4 1 which shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 you may use RPM to import GPG keys Issue the following command at a shell prompt as root rpm import usr share doc rpm 4 1 RPM GPG KEY For older versions of RPM such as the one that came with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 1 use the gpg command as root usr bin gpg import usr share rhn RPM GPG KEY To download the Red Hat GPG key fi...

Page 52: ...kzd0YURvi CegO2K7JPKbZJo6eJA10qiBQvAx2EUijZfxIKqZeLx40EKMaL7Wa2CM xmkQmCgg Hyu5bmLSMZ7cxFSWyXOst78dehCKv9WyPxHV3m4iANWFL4hGBBgRAgAGBQI7 9O3 AAoJEF5UgINlDViCKWcAoMCeYStWVKXJTytzHEL6Wl8rXr8WAKCHuapJIA4 eFsf 4ciWtjY8cO0v8Q yOVZ END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK Save the text file and import it into your keyring using the method applicable to your version of RPM 4 3 2 Manual Package Installation If you chose t...

Page 53: ... performed with the Red Hat Update Agent 4 4 Configuration The Red Hat Update Agent offers various options to configure its settings If you are not running the X Window System or prefer the command line version skip to Section 4 4 2 Command Line Version 4 4 1 Using the Red Hat Update Agent Configuration Tool You must be root to run the Red Hat Update Agent Configuration Tool If started by a user o...

Page 54: ... for detailed instructions 4 4 1 2 Retrieval Installation Settings The Retrieval Installation tab allows you to customize your software package retrieval and package w installation preferences Warning You must use Red Hat Update Agent Version 2 5 4 or higher to upgrade your kernel automatically Red Hat Update Agent will install the updated kernel and configure LILO or GRUB to boot the new kernel t...

Page 55: ...t This option is useful if you are installing custom RPMs on your system and you do not want them updated or reverted to the default Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages Retrieve source RPM along with binary package download both the source src rpm and the binary architecture rpm files The following installation options are configurable see Figure 4 17 Retrieval Installation Settings Use GPG to verif...

Page 56: ... according to the package name enter a character string including wild cards in the Add new text field under in the Package Names to Skip section heading A wild card at the end of the character string indicates that all packages beginning with the character string are excluded from the list A wild card at the beginning of the character string indicates that any packages that end with the character...

Page 57: ...bleRollbacks No 6 pkgSkipList kernel 7 storageDir var spool up2date 8 adminAddress root localhost 9 noBootLoader No 10 serverURL https xmlrpc rhn redhat com XMLRPC 11 fileSkipList 12 sslCACert usr share rhn RHNS CA CERT 13 noReplaceConfig Yes 14 useNoSSLForPackage No 15 systemIdPath etc sysconfig rhn systemid 16 enableProxyAuth No 17 retrieveSource No 18 versionOverride 19 headerFetchCount 10 20 n...

Page 58: ... systems entitle them to an RHN service level and subscribe them to specific channels and system groups all in one action This automation bypasses entitlement and registration via Red Hat Network Registration Client and Red Hat Update Agent Alternatively both the Red Hat Network Registration Client and Red Hat Update Agent offer the activation keys utility rhnreg_ks as part of their packages Note ...

Page 59: ...generate the key entitled to an RHN service offering and subscribed to the RHN channels and system groups selected during key generation The system is not subscribed to channels that contain packages unsuitable for the system For example a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 1 system cannot be subscribed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 channel The unique Digital Certificate for the system is generated on...

Page 60: ...stered directly to an organization To register a system to an organization on a satellite you can use the username and password of an account that is created within that organization For example if there is an organization called Sales Team with a username salesadmin and password abc123 using these credentials assures that a system is registered to the proper organization For example rhnreg_ks use...

Page 61: ...dify the configuration file you must as root restart the daemon with the command service rhnsd restart or etc rc d init d rhnsd restart Important The minimum time interval allowed is one hour 60 minutes If you set the interval below one hour it will default to four hours 240 minutes 5 2 Viewing Status You can view the status of the rhnsd by typing the command service rhnsd status or etc rc d init ...

Page 62: ...k Daemon is activated and running You may ensure this by running the following commands chkconfig level 345 rhnsd on service rhnsd start If these are correct and your systems still indicate they are not checking in please contact our technical support team ...

Page 63: ...cation Tool appears on the panel by default as shown in Figure 6 1 GNOME Panel with Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool Figure 6 1 GNOME Panel with Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool If it does not appear on the panel you can add it In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and later select Applications the main menu on the panel System Tools Red Hat Network Alert Icon To ensure the icon appears on s...

Page 64: ... proxy server requires a username and password select the Use Authentication option and enter your username and password in the respective text fields Tip To run the configuration wizard again right click on the applet and select Configuration Your preferences are written to the rhn applet conf file in your home directory The Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool also uses the system wide config...

Page 65: ...gly recommended that you apply the updates Refer to Section 6 4 Applying Updates for information on applying updates If you have scheduled updates to be installed you can watch the applet icon to determine when updates are applied The icon changes to the icon after the Errata Updates are applied If you apply a kernel update or the kernel update is automatically applied the applet displays the icon...

Page 66: ...on the Launch up2date button You can also right click on the icon and select Launch up2date For more information on the Red Hat Update Agent refer to Chapter 4 Red Hat Update Agent 6 5 Launching the RHN Website The simplest way to obtain a comprehensive view of your system s status is to access the RHN website This can be accomplished through the Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool by right cl...

Page 67: ...links are context sensitive and may vary slightly between RHN Satellite and non Satellite web interfaces The following is an example of the Left Navigation Bar for the Users tab Figure 7 2 Left Navigation Bar Users Some pages have sub tabs These tabs offer an additional layer of granularity in performing tasks for systems or users The following is a menu bar for all System Details sub tabs This sy...

Page 68: ...ater in this chapter Your RHN View and manage your primary account information and obtain help Your RHN Obtain a quick overview of your account It notifies you if your systems need attention provides a quick link to go directly to them and displays the most recent Errata Alerts for your account Your Account Update your personal profile and addresses Your Preferences Indicate if you wish to receive...

Page 69: ... keys containing completely customizable values that can be assigned while provisioning systems Kickstart Display and modify various aspects of kickstart profiles used in provisioning systems Errata View and manage Errata Alerts here Errata List Errata Alerts and download associated RPMs Advanced Search Search Errata Alerts based on specific criteria such as synopsis advisory type and package name...

Page 70: ...ation input Systems List the systems that have RHN managed configuration files Schedule Keep track of your scheduled actions Pending Actions List scheduled actions that have not been completed Failed Actions List scheduled actions that have failed Completed Actions List scheduled actions that have been completed Completed actions can be archived at any time Archived Actions List completed actions ...

Page 71: ... administration can only be configured by the organization administrator not the Satellite administrator Satellite Configuration Make general configuration changes to the Satellite including Proxy settings Certificate configuration Bootstrap Script configuration Organization changes and Restart the Satellite Server Task Engine Status configures the daemon that runs on the Satellite server itself a...

Page 72: ...ckage searches refer to Section 7 6 2 Package Search For advanced Documentation searches refer to Section 7 12 8 Search 7 1 5 Systems Selected Also near the top of the page is a tool for keeping track of the systems you have selected for use in the System Set Manager It identifies the number of selected systems at all times and provides the means to work with them Clicking the Clear button deselec...

Page 73: ... Figure 7 4 RHN Website If you have not registered a system yet or do not have a redhat com account create a new account by following the Learn More link then selecting Create Login on the resulting page After creating a new user account you must register a system before using RHN Refer to Chapter 4 Red Hat Update Agent for step by step instructions After registering your system with Red Hat Netwo...

Page 74: ...ton Note You must accept both the Site Terms and the T7 agreement in order to use RHN Once you have accepted the agreements and pressed the Continue button RHN displays the Your RHN page 7 3 Overview After logging into the web interface of Red Hat Network the first page to appear is Overview This page contains important information about your systems including summaries of system status actions an...

Page 75: ...via the web Click on any of the links to be taken to the page within RHN that allows you to accomplish that task To the right is the Inactive System listing If any systems have not been checking in to RHN they are listed here Highlighting them in this way allows an administrator to quickly select those systems for troubleshooting Customers with Monitoring enabled on their Satellite can also choose...

Page 76: ...hat have been added to the Satellite in the past 30 days Click the system s name to go the System Details page for that particular system You can return to this page by clicking Your RHN on the left navigation bar 7 3 1 Your Account The Your Account page allows you to modify your personal information such as name password and title To modify any of this information make the changes in the appropri...

Page 77: ...Note that RHN sends these summaries only to verified email addresses To disable all messages simply deselect this checkbox RHN List Page Size Maximum number of items that appear in a list on a single page If more items are in the list clicking the Next button displays the next group of items This preference applies to system lists Errata lists package lists and so on Overview Start Page select the...

Page 78: ... it becomes critical Virtualization applies to virtual host systems Virtual hosts with this entitlement may register as many as four guest systems without violating RHN s Service Level Agreement Guest systems may be subscribed to any channel with the virtualization free channel group label without consuming channel entitlements Subscribing a guest to any channel that does not belong to virtualizat...

Page 79: ...age for the system Click the Edit Properties link on the page to edit that system s add on entitlements The second table displays any Virtualization Platform entitled hosts that have fewer than four guests It may be advisable to to downgrade these systems entitlements to the Virtualization entitlement To do so click the profile name of the system you would like to downgrade then edit the add on en...

Page 80: ...e System Set Manager Refer to Section 7 4 4 System Set Manager for more information 7 4 2 Systems The Systems page displays a list of all of your registered systems The Systems list contains several columns of information for each system Select Update or unentitled systems cannot be selected To select systems mark the appropriate checkboxes Selected systems are added to the System Set Manager Afte...

Page 81: ...em is fully updated when run a conflict likely exists in the system s package profile or in the up2date configuration file To resolve the conflict either schedule a package list update or remove the packages from the Package Exceptions list for the Red Hat Update Agent Refer to Section 7 4 2 9 System Details or Section 4 4 1 3 Package Exceptions Settings respectively for instructions System The na...

Page 82: ...sed or stopped Base Channel This column indicates the base channel to which the guest is currently subscribed Only those guests that are registered with RHN are displayed in blue text Clicking on the hostname of such a guest system displays that system s System Details page 7 4 2 3 Out of Date The Out of Date page displays the systems that have applicable Errata Alerts that have not been applied 7...

Page 83: ...een registered in a given period of time Use the drop down menu to specify new systems registered in days weeks 30 and 180 day increments and yearly 7 4 2 8 Proxy The Proxy page displays the RHN Proxy Server systems registered to your RHN account 7 4 2 9 System Details Click on the name of a system on any page and RHN displays the System Details page for that client From here you may modify the di...

Page 84: ... This message indicates the current state of your system in relation to RHN Note If updates are available for any entitled system the message Critical updates available appears To apply these updates click the update now link system ID A unique identifier generated each time a system registers with RHN Note The system ID can be used to eliminate duplicate profiles from RHN Compare the system ID li...

Page 85: ...emoved manually This does not include preventing auto errata updates scheduled through the web interface To prevent the application of auto errata updates de select Auto Errata Update from the System Details Details Properties subtab Locking a system can help to prevent you from accidentally making any changes to a system until you are ready to do so For example the system may be a production syst...

Page 86: ...package installed and its service started Refer to the Enabling Push to Clients section of the RHN Satellite 5 2 0 Installation Guide for details Subscribed Channels Base Channel The first line indicates the base channel to which this client is subscribed The base channel should match the operating system of the system Child Channels The subsequent lines of text which depend from the base channel ...

Page 87: ...d on entitlements If available apply a Monitoring or Provisioning entitlement to the system Notifications Toggle whether notifications about this system are sent and whether this system is included in the daily summary By default all Management and Provisioning systems are included in the summary This setting keeps you abreast of all advisories pertaining to the system Anytime an update is produce...

Page 88: ... 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 allow remote commands touch etc sysconfig rhn allowed actions...

Page 89: ... hardware profile looks incomplete or outdated click the Schedule Hardware Refresh button to schedule a Hardware Profile update for your system The next time the RHN Daemon connects to RHN it will update your System Profile with the latest list of hardware 7 4 2 9 1 6 System Details Details Notes This subtab provides a place to create notes about the system To add a new note click the create new n...

Page 90: ... Errata that have been scheduled cannot be selected for update In the place of a checkbox is a clock icon that when clicked takes you to the Action Details page To help users determine whether an update has been scheduled a Status column exists within the Errata table Possible values are None Pending Picked Up Completed and Failed This column identifies only the latest action related to an Erratum...

Page 91: ... the packages on this system with the packages of stored profiles and other Management and Provisioning systems To make the comparison with a stored profile select that profile from the pulldown menu and click the Compare button To make the comparison with another system select it from the associated pulldown menu and click the Compare button To create a stored profile based upon the existing syst...

Page 92: ...software channels configuration channels store files to be installed on systems While software updates are provided by RHN configuration files are managed solely by you Also unlike software packages various versions of configuration files may prove useful to a system at any given time Remember only the latest version can be deployed 7 4 2 9 3 1 System Details Configuration Overview This subtab pro...

Page 93: ...o subscribe to and rank configuration channels that may be associated with the system lowest first The List Unsubscribe from Channels subtab contains a list of the system s configuration channel subscriptions Click the checkbox next to the Channel and click Unsubscribe to remove the subscription to the channel The Subscribe to Channels subtab lists all available configuration channels To subscribe...

Page 94: ... allows you to configure and schedule a kickstart for this system Th Schedule subtab allows you to schedule the selected system for kickstart Choose from the list of available kickstart profiles select a time for the kickstart to begin and click the Schedule Kickstart and Finish button to begin the kickstart You may first alter kickstart settings by clicking the Advanced Configuration button Note ...

Page 95: ...hots subtab lists all snapshots for the system including the reason the snapshot was taken the time it was taken and the number of tags applied to each snapshot To revert to a previous configuration click the Reason of the snapshot taken and review the potential changes on the provided subtabs starting with Rollback Each subtab provides the specific changes that will be made to the system during t...

Page 96: ...he guest is subscribed Tip If a guest system has not registered to the Satellite this information appears as plain text in the table If you have System Group Administrator responsibilities assigned for your guest systems it is possible that a user could see the message You do not have permission to access this system within the table This is because it is possible to assign virtual guests on a sin...

Page 97: ...t the groups checkboxes and click the Leave Selected Groups button Click on a group s name to go to its System Group Details page Refer to Section 7 4 3 3 System Group Details for more information 7 4 2 9 5 3 2 System Details Groups Join Lists groups that the system may be subscribed to Only System Group Administrators and Satellite Administrators can add the system to groups Non admins see a Revi...

Page 98: ...the table click Return to history list at the bottom of the page 7 4 3 System Groups The System Groups page allows all RHN Management and Provisioning users to view the System Groups list Only System Group Administrators and Satellite Administrators may perform the following additional tasks 1 Create system groups Refer to Section 7 4 3 1 Creating Groups 2 Add systems to system groups Refer to Sec...

Page 99: ...tion 7 4 3 3 System Group Details for more information The status icons call for differing degrees of attention All systems within group are up to date Critical Errata available update strongly recommended Updates available and recommended Group Name The name of the group as configured during its creation The name should be explicit enough to easily differentiate between it and other groups Clicki...

Page 100: ... caution Clicking Work with Group functions similarly to the Use Group button from the System Groups list in that it loads the group s systems and launches the System Set Manager immediately Refer to Section 7 4 4 System Set Manager for more information The System Group Details page is broken down into tabs 7 4 3 3 1 System Group Details Details Provides the group name and group description To cha...

Page 101: ...clearly identified System Group Administrators are marked with an asterisk To change the system group s users select and unselect the appropriate checkboxes and click the Update button 7 4 3 3 6 System Group Details Probes List all probes assigned to systems in the system group The State shows the status of the probe Click the individual System for details on the probe and to make changes to the p...

Page 102: ...ious options available to you in the remaining tabs 7 4 4 2 System Set Manager Systems List of systems now selected To remove systems from this set select them and click the Remove button 7 4 4 3 System Set Manager Errata List of Errata Updates applicable to the current system set Click the number in the Systems column to see to which systems in the System Set Manager the given Errata applies To a...

Page 103: ...ackages Remove A list of all the packages installed on the selected systems that might be removed Multiple versions appear if systems in the System Set Manager have more than one version installed Select the packages to be deleted then click the Remove Packages button 7 4 4 5 System Set Manager Verify A list of all installed package whose contents MD5 sum and other details may be verified At the n...

Page 104: ... 4 10 System Set Manager Configuration Like the options within the System Details Channels Configuration tab the subtabs here can be used to subscribe the selected systems to configuration channels and deploy and compare the configuration files on the systems The channels are created in the Manage Config Channels interface within the Channels category Refer to Section 7 7 2 Overview for channel cr...

Page 105: ... applied to the selected systems The three buttons below the channels reflect your options Clicking Subscribe with Highest Priority places all the ranked channels before any other channels to which the selected systems are currently subscribed Clicking Subscribe With Lowest Priority places the ranked channels after those channels to which the selected systems are currently subscribed Clicking Repl...

Page 106: ...start button to confirm your selections When the kickstarts for the selected systems are successfully scheduled the web interface returns you to the System Set Manager page 7 4 4 11 2 System Set Manager Provisioning Tag Systems Use this subtab to add meaningful descriptions to the most recent snapshots of your selected systems To tag the most recent system snapshots enter a descriptive term in the...

Page 107: ...es button to finalize the deletion 7 4 4 12 3 System Set Manager Misc Reboot Systems Select the appropriate systems and click the Reboot Systems link to set those systems for reboot To immediately cancel this action click the list of systems link that appears within the confirmation message at the top of the page select the systems and click Unschedule Action 7 4 4 12 4 System Set Manager Misc Loc...

Page 108: ...c application of relevant Errata This setting enables the automatic application of Errata Updates to the selected systems This means packages associated with Errata are updated without any 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 7 4...

Page 109: ...ystem including the following CPU Model The CPU model name such as Pentium or Athlon CPU MHz Less Than Search systems with a processor less than a user designated speed in Megahertz CPU MHz More Than Search systems with a processor more than a user designated speed in Megahertz Number of CPUs Less Than Search systems with a sum of processors less than a user designated quantity Number of CPUs Grea...

Page 110: ...ast Checkin for instance can be especially useful in finding and removing outdated System Profiles Type the keyword select the criterion to search by use the radio buttons to identify whether you wish to query all systems or only those loaded in the System Set Manager and click the Search button You may also select the Invert Result checkbox to list those systems that do not match the criteria sel...

Page 111: ...de the following information Description User defined description to identify the generated activation key Usage Limit The maximum number of registered systems that can be registered to the activation key at any one time Leave blank for unlimited use Deleting a system profile reduces the usage count by one and registering a system profile with the key increases the usage count by one Base Channel ...

Page 112: ...clicking their highlighted names To remove a key entirely click the delete key link in the top right corner of the edit page A system may be set to subscribe to a base channel during registration with an activation key However if the activation key specifies a base channel that is not compatible with the operating system of the systems the registration fails For example a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...

Page 113: ...ration fails enable config flag configuration management is set Do not use system specific activation keys along with other activation keys registration fails in this event You are now ready to use multiple activation keys at once This is done with comma separation at the command line with rhnreg_ks or in a kickstart profile within the Post tab of the Kickstart Details page Refer to Section 4 5 Re...

Page 114: ...es for the satellite example com Satellite server For more information refer to the help file by typing rhn custom info h 7 4 9 Kickstart Kickstart configuration files allow administrators to create an environment for automating otherwise time consuming system installations such as multiple servers or workstations Kickstart files can be created modified and managed within the RHN Satellite interfa...

Page 115: ...cts through an RHN Proxy Server to get to the Satellite these trees will be available for kickstart Refer to Section 7 4 9 6 Kickstart Distributions for instructions on setting up installation trees Figure 7 7 Kickstart Overview This overview page displays the status of kickstart on your client systems the types and number of profiles you have created and the progress of systems that are scheduled...

Page 116: ...eeded for the new machine to boot This includes an IP address the default gateway to be used the netmask of the network the IP address of the TFTP or HTTP server holding the bootloader program and the full path and file name of that program relative to the server s root 3 The machine applies the networking information and initiates a session with the server to request the bootloader program 4 The ...

Page 117: ... to create a bootable CD ROM that is inserted into the target system When the system is rebooted it boots from the CD ROM loads the kickstart configuration from the RHN Servers or your Satellite and proceeds to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux according to the kickstart profile you have created To do this copy the contents of isolinux from the first CD ROM of the target distribution Then edit the ...

Page 118: ...on Environment PXE This is less error prone than CDs enables kickstarting from bare metal and integrates with existing PXE DHCP environments To use this method make sure your systems have network interface cards NIC that support PXE install and configure a PXE server ensure DHCP is running and then place the appropriate files on an HTTP server for deployment Once the kickstart profile has been cre...

Page 119: ...rom the Systems Kickstart page to start the brief wizard that populates the base values needed for a kickstart profile 1 On the first line enter a kickstart profile label This label cannot contain spaces so use dashes or underscores _ as separators 2 Select a Base Channel for this profile which consists of packages based on a specific architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux release such as Red H...

Page 120: ...he kickstart profile s base channel is available to your organization If it is not you must request entitlements for the rhn tools software channel from the Satellite administrator Make sure that the rhn tools child channel for this kickstart profile s base channel is available to your RHN Satellite If it is not contact the Satellite administrator and request a satellite sync of the rhn tools Make...

Page 121: ...custom pre scripts to the root ks pre log file Check whether to preserve the ks cfg file and all include fragments to the root directory of all systems kickstarted with this profile Select whether this profile is the default for all of your organization s kickstarts by checking or unchecking the box Add any Kernel Options in the corresponding text box Add any Post Kernel Options in the correspondi...

Page 122: ...value For example the network portion of a kickstart file looks like the following network bootproto static device eth0 onboot on ip IPADDR gateway GATEWAY The IPADDR will be 192 168 0 28 and the GATEWAY will be 192 168 0 1 Note There is a hierarchy when creating and using variables in kickstart files System kickstart variables take precedence over Profile variables which in turn take precendence ...

Page 123: ...t from DHCP and static IP depending on your network Choose the level of SELinux that is configured on kickstarted systems Enable configuration management or remote command execution on kickstarted systems Change the root password associated with this profile 7 4 9 3 7 System Details Locale From this sub tab you can change the timezone associated with kickstarted systems 7 4 9 3 8 System Details Pa...

Page 124: ...ion of the Satellite Note Any GPG key you wish to import to the kickstarted system must be in ASCII rather than binary format 7 4 9 3 11 System Details Troubleshooting From this sub tab you can change information that may help with troubleshooting hardware problems Bootloader For some headless systems it is better to select the non graphic LILO bootloader Kernel Parameters Enter kernel parameters ...

Page 125: ...ing kickstarted systems 7 4 9 3 15 Scripts Figure 7 13 Scripts The Scripts tab which has no sub tabs is where pre and post scripts are created This page lists any scripts that have already been created for this kickstart profile To create a new kickstart script 1 Click the add new kickstart script link in the upper right 2 Enter the path to the scripting language used to create the script such as ...

Page 126: ...cess different tabs of the Kickstart Details page 7 4 9 5 Kickstart GPG and SSL Keys Lists keys and certificates available for inclusion in kickstart profiles and provides a means to create new ones This is especially important for customers of RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy Server because systems kickstarted by them must have the server key imported into RHN and associated with the relevant kickstart...

Page 127: ...tribution Label field such as my orgs rhel as 5 In the Tree Path field paste the path or URL to the base of the installation tree You can test this by appending README to the URL in a Web browser pressing Enter and ensuring that the distribution s readme file appears Select the matching distribution from the Base Channel and Installer Generation dropdown menus such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux v 5 ...

Page 128: ...associate that list with the kickstart profile to be used To use this feature click the create new file preservation list link at the top and enter a relevant label and all files and directories to be preserved on the resulting page Enter absolute paths to all files and directories Then click Create List Important Although file preservation is useful it does have limitations First each list is lim...

Page 129: ...Fix Updates available and recommended Enhancement Updates available A summary of each erratum is provided in list form This view instantly informs you of the type severity for Security Updates and subject of the erratum as well as the number of affected systems In addition to the pages described within this chapter you may view Errata by product line from the following location https rhn redhat co...

Page 130: ... that clicking either the Advisory or the number of systems affected takes you to related tabs of the Errata Details page Refer to Section 7 5 2 2 Errata Details for more information 7 5 2 1 Apply Errata Updates Errata Updates include a list of updated packages that are required to apply the Errata Update To apply Errata Updates to a system the system must be entitled Apply all applicable Errata U...

Page 131: ...etails Important If you use scheduled package installation the packages are installed via the RHN Daemon You must enable the RHN Daemon on your systems Refer to Chapter 5 Red Hat Network Daemon for more details The following rules apply to Errata Updates Each package is a member of one or more channels If a selected system is not subscribed to a channel containing the package the package will not ...

Page 132: ... You can apply updates here See Section 7 5 2 1 Apply Errata Updates Clicking on the name of a system takes you to its System Details page Refer to Section 7 4 2 9 System Details for more information To help users determine whether an update has been scheduled a Status column exists within the affected systems table Possible values are None Pending Picked Up Completed and Failed This column identi...

Page 133: ...dvisories or full Advisory name such as the example above Package Name Users concerned with particular packages can search by package name such as kernel Package search can be beneficial because search results will be grouped by advisory For example searching for kernel related bugs return results where all packages with the term kernel appear grouped by the advisory for which the bug is related C...

Page 134: ...ed on a system There are two types of software channels base channels and child channels 7 6 1 1 Base Channels A base channel consists of a list of packages based on a specific architecture and Red Hat Enterprise Linux release For example all of the packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for the x86 architecture make up a base channel The list of packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for the Itan...

Page 135: ...se channel Only packages included in a system s subscribed channels can be installed or updated on that system Further RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy Server customers have channel management authority This authority gives them the ability to create and manage their own custom channels Refer to the RHN Channel Management Guide for details Channels can be further broken down by their relevance to your ...

Page 136: ...by using the drop down menu to list only the channels with at least a certain number of systems subscribed 7 6 1 6 My Channels The My Channels page displays all of the software channels that belong to your organization which includes both Red Hat channels and custom channels You can refine the search further by using the text box to filter by the channel name 7 6 1 7 Shared Channels The Shared Cha...

Page 137: ...ibe systems to any channel Only customers with custom base channels may change their systems base channel assignment They may do this through the website in two ways Customers with a custom base channel may assign the system to that base channel Customers may revert system subscriptions from a custom base channel to the appropriate distribution based base channel Note The system base channel s dis...

Page 138: ...em names base channels and their levels of entitlement Clicking on a system name takes you to its System Details page Refer to Section 7 4 2 9 System Details for more information If it is a child channel you also have the option of unsubscribing systems from the channel Use the checkboxes to select the systems then click the Unsubscribe button on the bottom right hand corner 7 6 1 9 5 Software Cha...

Page 139: ...in the one line description of the package for example searching for the Apache HTTP Server when the actual Red Hat Enterprise Linux package name is httpd Name and Summary Similar to a Name and Description search this search criteria searches package names and the longer Summary for the package So a search for web browser could result in several results that includes both graphical and text based ...

Page 140: ...es custom distribution based and child channels To clone an existing channel click the clone channels link in the upper right of the screen select the channel to be cloned from the dropdown menu and click the Create Channel button The next screen presents various options for the new channel including base architecture and GPG options Make your selections and click the Create Channel button to comp...

Page 141: ...n in the bottom right of the screen To compare packages within the current channel with those of another channel select the other channel from the drop down menu and click the Compare button All packages present in either channel are compared and the results displayed on the next screen This information includes the architecture and version of each package To make the two channels identical click ...

Page 142: ... 1 Red Hat Network Actions Control for instructions 7 7 2 Overview The Configuration Overview page allows you to assess at a glance the status of your configuration files and the systems that use them Configuration Summary This panel provides quick reference information about your configuration files Clicking on any of the blue text to the right displays an appropriate list of either relevant syst...

Page 143: ...no character restriction This field can contain any brief information that allows you to distinguish this channel from others 5 Press the Create Config Channel button to create the new channel 6 The following page is a subset of the Channel Details page and has three sub tabs Overview Add Files and Systems The Channel Details page is discussed fully in Section 7 7 3 1 Configuration Configuration C...

Page 144: ...e content in the appropriate fields Finally press the Create Configuration File button to create the new file Deploy Files This sub tab only appears when there are files present in the channel You can deploy all files by pressing the Deploy All Files button or you can check selected files and press the Deploy Selected Files button You will then be asked to select to which systems the file s should...

Page 145: ...st of systems that have a local or override version of the configuration files which means that the centrally managed file will not be deployed to those systems 7 7 5 Locally Managed Files Locally managed configuration files are those files that apply to only one system They may be files in the system s sandbox or they may be files that can be deployed to the system at any time Local files have hi...

Page 146: ... its Configuration File Details page and include the supported macros of your choosing Ensure that the delimiters used to offset your variables match those set in the Macro Start Delimiter and Macro End Delimiter fields and do not conflict with other characters in the file We recommend that the delimiters be two characters in length and must not contain the percent symbol As an example you may hav...

Page 147: ...ems 7 7 6 1 Managed Systems This page is the default display for the Configuration Systems page The systems displayed here have been fully prepared for configuration file deployment The number of local and centrally managed files is displayed Clicking the name of the system takes you to the System Details Configuration Overview page for the system Clicking on the number of local files takes you to...

Page 148: ... an action can be scheduled to apply all Errata Updates to a system Red Hat Network keeps track of the following action types 1 Package Alteration installation upgrade and removal 2 Rollback Package Actions 3 System Reboots 4 Errata Updates 5 Configuration File Alteration deploy upload and diff 6 Hardware Profile Updates 7 Package List Profile Updates 8 Kickstart Initiation 9 Remote Commands Each ...

Page 149: ...ns List In each page each row in the list represents a single scheduled event or action that might affect multiple systems and involve various packages The list contains several columns of information Select Use the checkboxes in this column to select actions After selecting actions you can either add them to your selection list or move them to the Archived Actions list If you archive a pending ac...

Page 150: ... Action Details Completed Systems List of systems on which the action has been successfully undertaken Clicking a system name takes you to its System Details page Refer to Section 7 4 2 9 System Details for more information 7 8 5 1 3 Action Details In Progress Systems List of systems on which the action is now being undertaken To cancel an action select the system using the appropriate checkbox an...

Page 151: ...tailed descriptions of each subtab 7 9 1 User List Active This tab lists all active users of your RHN account It displays the following basic information about each user their username real name roles and the date of their last sign in As shown in Figure 7 20 User List each row in the User List represents a user within your organization There are four columns of information for each user Username ...

Page 152: ...r Service to delete a user Users may be deactivated or deleted by Satellite Administrators or users may deactivate their own accounts Deactivated users cannot log in to the RHN web interface nor may they schedule any actions Satellite Administrators may not be deactivated until that role is removed from their account Actions scheduled by a user prior to their deactivation remain in the action queu...

Page 153: ...sername first name last name email address and user roles for the user All of this information is modifiable To do so make your changes and click the Update button Remember when changing a user s password you will see only asterisks as you type the password To delegate responsibilities within your organization Red Hat Network provides several roles with varying degrees of responsibility and access...

Page 154: ...es so long as you are not the last Satellite Administrator To assign a user a new role select the appropriate checkbox Remember that Satellite Administrators are automatically granted administration access to all other roles signified by grayed out checkboxes To grant a user the ability to manage the configuration of systems select the Configuration Administrator checkbox When satisfied with the c...

Page 155: ...atus does not enable the user to create new channels Note that channels automatically manageable through the user s admin status cannot be altered They are identified with a check icon Remember Satellite Administrators and Channel Administrators can subscribe to or manage any channel 7 9 1 1 5 User List Active User Details Preferences This page allows you to configure whether the user receives ema...

Page 156: ...ssible via links in their names As always Satellite Administrators have full access to all aspects of your RHN account 7 9 2 User List Deactivated This page lists all users who have been deactivated To reactivate any of the users listed here click the check box to the left of their name and click the Reactivate button followed by the Confirm button Reactivated users retain the permissions and syst...

Page 157: ...tifies the icons associated with them Critical The probe has crossed a CRITICAL threshold Warning The probe has crossed a WARNING threshold Unknown The probe is not able to accurately report metric or state data Pending The probe has been scheduled but has not yet run or is unable to run OK The probe is running successfully The Probe Status page contains tabs for each of the possible states as wel...

Page 158: ...eir timeout period This may mean that the timeout period should be increased or the connection cannot be established to the monitored system It is also possible the probes configuration parameters are not correct and their data cannot be found Finally this state may indicate that a software error has occurred 7 10 1 4 Probe Status Pending The probes whose data have not been received by RHN This st...

Page 159: ... a new notification method click on the name of the user to whom the notification will apply The user s User Details Notification Methods page appears Refer to Section 7 9 1 1 7 User List Active User Details Notification Methods for further information Click on the title of the notification method to edit the properties of the method 7 10 2 1 Notification Filters Notification filters allow you to ...

Page 160: ...the filter A non recurring filter runs continuously between the start and end times of the filter 10 Beginning Enter a date and time for the filter to begin operation 11 Ending Enter an end date and time for the filter 12 Recurring Duration How long a recurring filter instance is active This field applicable to recurring filters only begins at the Beginning time specified above Any notification ge...

Page 161: ...robe Suite select the monitoring scout you wish to use and click the Add systems to probe suite button to complete the creation of the Probe Suite You can either delete or detach probes from the suite Detaching a probe disassociates the probes from the suite and converts them to system specific probes for the specified system This means that changes to the detached probes only effect that system D...

Page 162: ...the Monitoring Probe Suites page to download the file 7 10 4 Scout Config Push Displays the status of your monitoring infrastructure Anytime you make a change to your monitoring configuration such as adding a probe to a system or editing a probe s thresholds you must reconfigure your monitoring infrastructure Do this by selecting the RHN Server s checkbox and clicking Push Scout Configs The table ...

Page 163: ...7 11 2 1 Admin Satellite Configuration General The Satellite Configuration General Configuration page allows you to alter the most basic Satellite settings such as the admin email address and whether Monitoring is enabled 7 11 2 2 Admin Satellite Configuration Monitoring The RHN Satellite Configuration Monitoring page allows you to configure the monitoring aspects of this Satellite The local mail ...

Page 164: ... restart the Satellite in order to incorporate all of the configuration options added on the previous screens Note that it will take between four and five minutes for the restart to finish 7 12 Help The Help pages provide access to the full suite of documentation and support available to RHN users Click Help in the Your RHN category to see a list of options available to you 7 12 1 Reference Guide ...

Page 165: ...ain packages from a specific Red Hat Enterprise Linux version for instance A channel may contain packages for an application or family of applications Users may also define channels for their own particular needs a company may create a channel that contains packages for all of the organization s laptops for example The Channel Management Guide documents the creation and maintenance of custom chann...

Page 166: ...Title Search only the titles heading of the documentation for targeted specific search results The Free Form field addtionally allows you to search using field names that you prepend to search queries and filter results in that field For example if you wanted to search all of the Satellite manuals for the word Virtualization in the title and kickstart in the content type the follwing in the Free F...

Page 167: ...can limit the amount of visible results shown on one page by clicking the Display quantity items per page drop down menu which offers between 10 and 500 results per page To move between pages click the right or left angle brackets to go forward or to go backward ...

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Page 169: ... Satellite with Monitoring Monitoring systems must be connected to a Satellite with a base operating system of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or later Refer to the RHN Satellite Installation Guide within Help for installation instructions Monitoring Administrator This role must be granted to users installing probes creating notification methods or altering the monitoring ...

Page 170: ...ux Users Linux Virtual Memory LogAgent Log Pattern Match LogAgent Log Size Network Services Remote Ping Oracle Client Connectivity General Remote Program General Remote Program with Data Note that all probes in the Linux group have this requirement 8 2 2 Installing the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon Install the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon to prepare systems for monitoring with the probes ...

Page 171: ...s for RHNMD User and RHNMD Port nocpulse and 4545 respectively 8 2 3 Configuring SSH If you wish to avoid installing the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon and opening port 4545 on client systems you may configure sshd to provide the encrypted connection required between the systems and RHN This may be especially desirable if you already have sshd running To configure the daemon for monitoring use ...

Page 172: ... Preparing Systems for Config Management for details Note If valid entries already exist in authorized_keys add the daemon key to the file rather than replacing the existing key To do so save the copied text to id_dsa pub in the same ssh directory and then run the following command cat ssh id_dsa pub ssh authorized_keys 5 Finally ensure the ssh directory and authorized_keys file have the appropria...

Page 173: ...uch as DBA day email and provide the correct email or pager address Remember the labels for all notification methods are available in a single list during probe creation so they should be unique to your organization 4 Select the checkbox if you desire abbreviated messages to be sent to the pager This shorter format contains only the probe state system hostname probe name time of message and Send I...

Page 174: ...include the desired option These are the possible redirect options or filter types ACK METOO Sends the notification to the redirect destination s in addition to the default destination ACK SUSPEND Suspends the notification method for a specified time period ACK AUTOACK Does not change the destination of the notification but automatically acknowledges matching alerts as soon as they are sent ACK RE...

Page 175: ...ite as an Satellite Administrator or Monitoring Administrator 2 Navigate to the Monitoring Notifications page and click the name of the method to be removed 3 On the User Details Notification Methods tab click delete method If the method is not associated with any probes you are presented with a confirmation page Click Confirm Deletion The notification method is removed Tip Since both the notifica...

Page 176: ...ITICAL or WARNING thresholds Refer to Section 8 4 Notifications to find out how to create notification methods and acknowledge their messages 6 Use the RHNMD User and RHNMD Port fields if they appear to force the probe to communicate via sshd rather than the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon Refer to Section 8 2 3 Configuring SSH for details Otherwise accept the default values of nocpulse and 4545...

Page 177: ...he server on itself Thresholds and notifications work normally Note Any probes that require Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon connections cannot be used against a RHN Satellite or RHN Proxy Server on which Monitoring software is running This includes most probes in the Linux command group as well as the Log Agent probes and the Remote Program probes Use the Satellite command group probes to monito...

Page 178: ...eCommandShell sshport 4545 Now that you have the ID you use it with rhn runprobe to examine the probe s output Refer to Section 8 6 2 Viewing the output of rhn runprobe for instructions 8 6 2 Viewing the output of rhn runprobe Now that you have obtained the probe ID with rhn catalog use it in conjunction with rhn runprobe to examine the complete output of the probe Note that by default rhn runprob...

Page 179: ...put for probeID 5 for all run levels with a high level of verbosity More specifically you may provide the command parameters derived from rhn catalog like so rhn runprobe 5 log all 4 sshuser nocpulse sshport 4545 This yields verbose output depicting the probe s attempted execution Errors are clearly identified ...

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Page 181: ...for A Multi Department Organization In this first scenario the RHN Satellite is maintained by a central group within a business or other organization refer to Figure 9 1 Centralized Satellite Management for Multi Department Organization The Satellite administrator of Organization 1 the administrative organization created during Satellite configuration treats Organization 1 the Administrative Organ...

Page 182: ...ntralized example sharing is less tolerable Administrators can allocate entitlements in specific amounts to each organization Each organization will have access to all Red Hat content synced to the Satellite if the organization has software channel entitlements for the content However if one organization pushes custom content to their organization it will not be available to other organizations Yo...

Page 183: ...s organization implicitly by removing them or adding them from the other organizations on the Satellite 2 The administrative organization is intended to be a staging area for subscriptions and entitlements When you associate the Satellite with a new certificate any new entitlements will by granted to this organization by default In order to make those new entitlements available to other organizati...

Page 184: ... rhn conf file set web force_unentitlement 1 2 Restart the Satellite 3 Reduce the allocated entitlements to the desired organizations either via each organization s Subscriptions tab or via individual entitlement s Organizations tabs 4 A number of systems in the organization should now be in an unentitled state The number of systems unentitled in the organization will be equal to the difference be...

Page 185: ...licking on an organization displays the Details page where administrators are provided a summary of various aspects of the organization Active Users The number of users in the organization Systems The number of systems subscribed to the organization System Groups The number of groups subscribed to the organization Activation Keys The number of activation keys available to the organization Kickstar...

Page 186: ... 4 Create New Organization 1 Input the Organization Name in the provided text box The name should be between 3 and 128 characters 2 Create an administrator for the organization a Enter a Desired Login for the organization administrator which should be between 3 and 128 characters long b Create a Desired Password and Confirm the password c Type in the Email for the organization administrator d Ente...

Page 187: ...ware entitlements available For example if there are 100 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client entitlements but only 50 management system entitlements to an organization only 50 systems are able to register to that organization You must also grant RHN Tools software channel entitlements to each organization The RHN Tools channel contains various client software required for extended Satellite functional...

Page 188: ... Values The Details subtab for the system entitlement contains information about the entitlement and what access it grants The Organizations subtab allows Satellite administrators to adjust the number of system entitlement allocations available to each organization Type in the number within the range listed in Possible Values and click the Confirm Changes button for that organization The Organizat...

Page 189: ...usts Organizations can share their resources with each other by establishing an organizational trust in the Satellite An organizational trust is bi directional meaning that once a Satellite Administrator establishes a trust between two or more organizations the Organization Administrator from each organization is free to share as much or as little of their resources as they need to It is up to eac...

Page 190: ...ee levels of channel sharing that can be applied to each channel for finer grained channel access control Note Organizations cannot share Red Hat Channels because they are available to all organizations that have entitlements to those channels To share a custom channel with another organization perform the following steps 1 Login to the Satellite with the username of the Organization Administrator...

Page 191: ...ght then the system will have no base channel on the Systems page and will not receive updates 9 6 3 Migrating Systems from One Trusted Organization to Another In addition to sharing software channels organizations in a trust can migrate systems to other trusted organizations by using a utility called migrate system profile migrate system profile usage is based on the command line and uses systemI...

Page 192: ... Finance Organization Administrator does not have shell access to the RHN Satellite server The RHN Satellite hostname is satserver example com The Finance Organization Administrator would type the following from a shell prompt migrate system profile satellite satserver example com systemId 10001020 to org id 2 The Finance Organization Administrator is then prompted for their username and password ...

Page 193: ...llite Administrators that need to migrate several systems at once can use the csv option of migrate system profile to automate the process using a simple comma separated list of systems to migrate A line in the CSV file should contain the ID of the system to be migrated as well as destination organization s ID in the following format systemId to org id the systemId for example could be 1000010000 ...

Page 194: ...etails page Refer to Section 7 9 Users for more information on user configuration 9 7 1 Admin Organizations Details Users The Users subtab lists the users assigned to the organization including their real names email address and a check mark indicating that the user is an administrator of the organization If you are the Organization Administrator you can click the username to display the User Deta...

Page 195: ... the Satellite s web interface Navigate to the Kickstart Overview screen by clicking the Manage Kickstarts link in the Tasks widget in Your RHN or by clicking on the Systems tab followed by the Kickstart subtab in the left navigation bar 2 On the Kickstart Overview page click the Create a New Kickstart Profile link in the Kickstart Actions widget in the upper right corner 3 You should now find you...

Page 196: ...ontent to your Satellite from Red Hat s server 5 For Step 3 of the kickstart profile creation process please choose a root password to set on the host system you will be provisioning and click Next to finish creation of the profile 6 This completes kickstart profile creation After completing Step 3 you are taken to the newly created kickstart profile You may browse through the various tabs of the ...

Page 197: ... profile you created earlier on the host system s Schedule Kickstart page you may have created a kickstart profile for an architecture that does not match the architecture of the host system you have registered If this is the case open the kickstart profile by navigating to Systems Kickstart Profiles within the Satellite web interface and clicking on the label for the host system s kickstart profi...

Page 198: ...rder to follow these steps 1 You will find an ISO to create a boot CD for you host by using ssh to log into your Satellite It is at the following location on your satellite var satellite rhn kickstart ks rhel i386 server 5 images boot iso For details on how to use this ISO image to burn a CD using Linux please refer to the following Red Hat Knowledgebase Article http kbase redhat com faq FAQ_80_44...

Page 199: ...e password password Note If your host system is already registered to a different Red Hat Network server add the force to the command above 2 Next open up the host system s profile in the Satellite web interface Log into the web interface of your Satellite at https your satellite example com Click on the Systems tab in the top navigational bar You should see the host system you just registered cli...

Page 200: ...EFAULTKERNEL kernel Change the value to kernel xen DEFAULTKERNEL kernel xen 5 Reboot the system boot it into the xen kernel The system should not automatically boot into the xen kernel on reboot but if you would like to make sure it has for troubleshooting purposes use the command uname r to see if the running kernel is a xen kernel If you do not see the xen string in the name of the kernel you ha...

Page 201: ...nt Note Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client 5 may not be available for selection if you did not sync the Client software channels to your Satellite Tip Please note that the channel labels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop refer to server and client respectively c For the Kickstartable Tree field you should select ks rhel ARCH PRODUCT 5 where ARCH is the architecture...

Page 202: ...ed for each field in the interface For the Kickstart Profile field select the guest system profile we created in the last step 3 Finally click on the Schedule Kickstart and Finish button in the lower right corner of the screen You will be taken to the Kickstart Status page where you can follow along with the guest s kickstart progress After ten to fifteen minutes the status screen should indicate ...

Page 203: ... guest kickstart while another is currently taking place the current guest kickstart process will be canceled and the new guest kickstart process will begin 5 View your newly created virtual guest s system in the Satellite s web interface by clicking on the Virtualization tab in the host system s profile Then click on the profile name of your virtual system You will be brought to its Satellite sys...

Page 204: ...hit the Ctrl and keys on your keyboard simultaneously 10 3 3 Installing Software Via the Satellite Web Interface 1 Browse to the virtual system s profile in your Satellite s web interface by logging in and navigating to Systems Systems Virtual Systems and clicking on the name of your virtual system s profile 2 In the virtual system s profile click on the Software Packages tab 3 Click on Install Ne...

Page 205: ...l system that you wish to delete You may do this by browsing to the host system s profile in the Satellite web interface clicking on the virtualization tab and checking off the virtual systems that you would like to delete Finish shutting down by clicking the Shutdown Systems button at the bottom of the screen 2 Next delete the virtual system from Satellite This is accomplished by checking off the...

Page 206: ...rom the host system To locate the RHN configuration file for guest1 run the following command grep guest1 etc sysconfig rhn virt xml Then delete the file indicated For example rm etc sysconfig rhn virt 14e5cfbf72342515236ad74b260c2f6b xml 5 You have successfully deleted a guest system from your host system and from Satellite ...

Page 207: ...XE boot systems for installation you must have either the ability to act as a DHCP server for Cobbler PXE booting or access to your network DHCP server etc dhcp conf to change next server to the hostname or IP address of your Cobbler server 11 1 1 Using cobbler check Once your Satellite server is installed you can check that your system is correctly configured to run as a proper Cobbler boot serve...

Page 208: ...intended For more information about configuring Cobbler settings consult the etc cobbler settings file which documents each setting in detail 11 1 3 Cobbler and DHCP Cobbler supports bare metal kickstart installation of systems configured to perform network boots using a PXE boot server To properly implement a Cobbler installation server administrators need to either have administrative access to ...

Page 209: ...netd service for all user runlevels while the sbin service command turns on xinetd immediately 11 1 5 Configuring SELinux and IPTables for Cobbler Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux is installed with SELinux support in addition to secure firewall enabled by default To properly configure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server to use Cobbler you must first configure these system and network safeguards to a...

Page 210: ... state state NEW m udp p udp dport 69 j ACCEPT For HTTPD sbin iptables A INPUT m state state NEW m tcp p tcp dport 80 j ACCEPT sbin iptables A INPUT m state state NEW m tcp p tcp dport 443 j ACCEPT For Cobbler sbin iptables A INPUT m state state NEW m tcp p udp dport 25150 j ACCEPT For Koan sbin iptables A INPUT m state state NEW m tcp p tcp dport 25151 j ACCEPT Once those firewall rules are enter...

Page 211: ...itrd path The name string switch is a label used to differentiate one distro choice from another for example rhel5server The kernel path switch specifies the path to the kernel image file The initrd path switch specifies the path to the initial ramdisk initrd image file 11 3 Adding a Profile to Cobbler Once you have configured a distribution to Cobbler you can then add profiles to Cobbler Cobbler ...

Page 212: ... assigned to run on it Note If you are provisioning via koan and PXE menus alone it is not required to create system records though they are useful when system specific kickstart templating is required or to establish that a specific system should always recieve a specific content installed If there is a specific role inteded for a specified client system records should be created for it For infor...

Page 213: ...hanced features and syntax it can also be used simply to make kickstart files without such complexity 11 5 1 Using Templates Kickstart templates can have static values for certain common items such as PXE image filenames subnet addresses and common paths such as etc sysconfig network scripts However where templates differ from standard kickstart files are in their use of variables For example a st...

Page 214: ...stitute the function with the snippet of code contained in the my_partition file For more information about kickstart snippets refer to the Cobbler project page at the following URL https fedorahosted org cobbler wiki KickstartSnippets 11 6 Using Koan Whether you are provisioning guests on a virtual machine or reinstalling a new distribution on a running system koan works in conjunction with Cobbl...

Page 215: ...y default is labeled with the system s MAC address Once installation of the virtual guest is complete it can be used as any other virtual guest system 11 6 2 Using Koan to Re install Running Systems There may be instances where you need to re install a machine with another operating system while it is still running koan can help you by destructively replacing a running system with a new installati...

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Page 217: ...aris 9 yes n a yes n a no yes Solaris 10 n a n a yes yes no yes Table 12 1 Supported Solaris Architectures and Versions 12 1 2 Prerequisites These items are needed to obtain UNIX support RHN Satellite 5 0 0 or later A Satellite certificate with Management entitlements Management entitlements for each UNIX client RHN packages for UNIX including python pyOpenSSL and the Red Hat Network Client packag...

Page 218: ...ions in the rhnpush package for Solaris The first solaris2mpm is an RHN utility that create an MPM file for each Solaris package or patch The neutral format of the MPM file allows the Satellite to understand and manage the uploaded files The second rhnpush has been extended so that it can handle MPM as well as RPM files Otherwise it operates identically to the Linux version of rhnpush The Channels...

Page 219: ... Figure 12 1 Enabling UNIX Support During Satellite Installation 2 After the Satellite has been installed Enable UNIX support by configuring the Satellite after it has been installed To do so select Satellite Tools in the top menubar then select Satellite Configuration in the left navigation bar In the screen that follows check the Enable Solaris Support box as pictured ...

Page 220: ...vigate to the Channel tab followed by the Manage Software Channels from the left navigation bar Click the create new channel link in the upper right of the resulting screen Provide a name and label for your new channel and select either Sparc Solaris or i386 Solaris as the architecture depending on the architecture of your client 12 3 Client System Preparation Before your UNIX based client systems...

Page 221: ...ill enables system registration and facilitates package installs and patches Refer to Section 12 4 Registration and Updates for a full description of the tool s options Note It may be useful to enter the command bash when first logging into the Solaris client If the BASH shell is available it will make the system s behavior as Linux like as possible 12 3 1 1 Install Third Party Packages Installati...

Page 222: ...o include the components shown below Note that the l option resets the value rather than appending it so if there already were values set on your system prepend them to the l parameter On sparc crle c var ld ld config l other existing path lib usr lib usr local lib On x86 crle c var ld ld config l other existing path lib usr lib usr local lib usr sfw lib 12 3 1 3 Download RHN Client Packages Downl...

Page 223: ...ATpossl 0 6 1 p24 6 pkg all pkgadd d RHATpythn 2 4 1 2 rhn 4 sol9 pkg all pkgadd d RHATrhnl 1 8 7 p23 pkg all Note You may choose to use the n of pkgadd which runs the command in non interactive mode However this may cause the installation of some packages to fail silently on Solaris 10 Continue until each package is installed in the RHN specific path opt redhat rhn solaris 12 3 1 5 Include RHN Pa...

Page 224: ...hese steps for each client 1 Download the SSL certificate from the var www html pub directory of the RHN Satellite onto the client system The certificate will be named something similar to RHN ORG TRUSTED SSL CERT It is accessible via the web at the following URL https your satellite example com pub RHN ORG TRUSTED SSL CERT 2 Move the client SSL certificate to the RHN specific directory for your U...

Page 225: ...icate described in Section 12 3 2 Deploying Client SSL Certificates for example sslCACert comment The CA cert used to verify the ssl server sslCACert opt redhat rhn solaris usr share rhn RHN ORG TRUSTED SSL CERT Your client systems are now ready for registration with Red Hat Network and management by your Satellite 12 4 Registration and Updates Now that you have installed RHN specific packages imp...

Page 226: ...package installations something Linux doesn t understand while Red Hat offers the concept of source packages For this reason this section seeks to highlight differences in using RHN tools on UNIX systems Note RHN does not support Solaris answer files in the current release such support is planned for future releases Despite inherent differences such as the lack of Errata the channel and package ma...

Page 227: ...mpm command must be run on the client never the Satellite Note solaris2mpm requires free space equal to three times the size of any package patch or patch cluster it is converting Normally space in tmp will be used for this purpose However the tempdir option allows you to specify another directory if necessary Multiple files may be specified on the command line of solaris2mpm Below is a usage exam...

Page 228: ... patches or patch clusters you wish to manage via the Satellite then use RHN Push to upload them to the channel you created for them 12 4 2 2 Updating Through the Website To install packages or patches on an individual system click the name of the system in the Systems category select the packages from the Upgrade or Install lists of the Packages or Patches tab and click Install Upgrade Selected P...

Page 229: ...he precise list of options available for UNIX systems The command line version of the Red Hat Update Agent accepts the following arguments on UNIX systems Argument Description version Show program version information h help Show this help message and exit v verbose Show additional output l list List the latest versions of all packages installed p packages Update packages associated with this Syste...

Page 230: ...n Solaris issue this command to create the directory mkdir p opt redhat rhn solaris etc sysconfig rhn allowed actions script To create the requisite file in Solaris issue this command touch opt redhat rhn solaris etc sysconfig rhn allowed actions script run 12 5 2 Issuing Commands You may schedule a remote command in a variety of ways on an individual system on multiple systems at once and to acco...

Page 231: ...n before or after the package action establish the settings for the command and click Schedule Package Install Upgrade Note that installing multiple packages that have different remote commands requires scheduling the installs separately or combining the commands into a single script ...

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Page 233: ... Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and later have this registration functionality built into the Red Hat Update Agent After registering your system refer to Chapter 4 Red Hat Update Agent for instructions on starting the Red Hat Update Agent A 1 Configuring the Red Hat Network Registration Client To start the graphical interface for configuring the application to connect through an HTTP p...

Page 234: ...sconfig rhn oeminfo 3 enableProxy No 4 networkSetup Yes 5 httpProxy 6 proxyUser 7 serverURL https xmlrpc rhn redhat com XMLRPC 8 proxyPassword 9 debug No Enter number of item to edit return to exit q to quit without saving Enter the number of the item to modify and enter a new value for the option When finished changing your configuration press Enter to save your changes and exit Press q and then ...

Page 235: ...at you retain management of these systems Red Hat recommends that your organization create an activation key associated with a specific system group and grant you permissions to that group You may then register your systems using that activation key and find those System Profiles within RHN immediately Refer to Section 4 5 Registering with Activation Keys for instructions To start the Red Hat Netw...

Page 236: ... longer be able to use your previous System Profile be sure this is what you want to do before you choose Yes If you overwrite an existing system registration you can delete the unused profile via the website at https rhn redhat com Figure A 3 Warning This System Already Registered The opening screen for the Red Hat Network Registration Client provides a brief overview of the services available an...

Page 237: ...at is committed to protecting your privacy see Figure A 5 Red Hat Privacy Statement The information gathered during the Red Hat Network registration process is used to create a System Profile The System Profile is essential if you wish to receive update notifications about your system ...

Page 238: ...email address In the screen shown in Figure A 7 Create a Unique Username and Password you must choose a username and password Once logged in to Red Hat Network you can modify your preferences view your existing System Profile or obtain the latest Red Hat software packages You must choose a unique username If you enter one already in use you will see an error message see Figure A 6 Error Username A...

Page 239: ...by capitalization In addition the following restrictions apply to both your username and password Must be at least four characters long Cannot contain any tabs Cannot contain any line feeds Passwords are case sensitive for obvious reasons If you have already registered a machine and created a System Profile you can add a new machine to your account Run the Red Hat Network Registration Client on th...

Page 240: ... can then create your user account through the Users category of the RHN website Refer to Section 7 9 Users for instructions Click Next to continue A 4 Registering a System Profile Now that you have a user account you can create a System Profile that consists of hardware and software information about your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system The software System Profile information is used by Red Hat N...

Page 241: ...the system You may modify this to be a more descriptive string such as Email Server for Support Team Optionally you can enter a computer serial or identification number for the system If you do not wish to include information about your hardware or network in your System Profile deselect Include information about hardware and network see Figure A 8 System Profile Hardware Click Next to continue wi...

Page 242: ...s about the packages in your System Profile Thus if you use an older version of a package and deselect it from the list it will not be replaced with a newer version This RPM list can be modified through the Red Hat Network website or by using the Red Hat Update Agent Figure A 9 Registration Wizard shows the progress bar displayed while the Red Hat Network Registration Client gathers a list of the ...

Page 243: ...updated by Red Hat Network To exclude a package uncheck the package from the list by clicking the checkbox beside the package name For example Figure A 11 Choose which RPM Packages to Exclude from System Profile shows that the procmail procps and psgml packages have been omitted from the package list Choose which packages to exclude if any from the System Profile and click Next to continue with th...

Page 244: ...ile A 5 Finishing Registration As seen in Figure A 12 Finished Collecting Information for System Profile the last step of registration is to confirm that you want to send your System Profile to the Red Hat Network If you choose Cancel at this point no information is sent Clicking Next submits your RHN System Profile ...

Page 245: ...n your connection speed Figure A 13 Send System Profile to Red Hat Network The Red Hat Network Registration Client displays the Registration Finished screen Figure A 14 Registration Finished once your System Profile has been sent successfully Click Finish to exit the Red Hat Network Registration Client After completing the registration you must entitle your system to an RHN service level Refer to ...

Page 246: ...he left navigation bar The System Entitlements page displays the following items a list of the system for which the user can choose an entitlement level the current entitlements applied to each of these systems buttons that allow the user to change entitlement level an overview of the number and types of purchased entitlements that remain available to the organization To change the entitlement lev...

Page 247: ...t mode You can force the Red Hat Network Registration Client to run in text mode with the command rhn_register nox The screens for the text mode Red Hat Network Registration Client are almost identical to the screens for the graphical Red Hat Network Registration Client Some of the text in the text mode version is more concise due to lack of space in the interface However there are equal numbers o...

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Page 249: ...ite 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 action...

Page 250: ... client The Red Hat Network Configuration Client offers these primary modes list get channels diff and verify B 2 1 Listing Config Files To list the configuration files for the machine and the labels of the config channels containing them issue the command rhncfg client list The output resembles the following list Config Channel File config channel 17 etc example config txt config channel 17 var s...

Page 251: ...fig channel containing it This is accomplished within the Configuration tab of the System Details page Refer to Section 7 4 2 9 System Details for instructions B 2 3 Viewing Config Channels To view the labels and names of the config channels that apply to the system issue the command rhncfg client channels You should see output resembling Config channels Label Name config channel 17 config chan 2 ...

Page 252: ... txt is locally modified while aalib rpm is not The following table lists the options available for rhncfg client verify 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 B 3 rhncfg client verify options B 3 Red Hat Network Configuration Manager Unlike ...

Page 253: ...ve 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 You can see such a list of options for the add mode at Table B 4 rhncfg manager add options B 3 1 Creating a Config Channel To create a conf...

Page 254: ...NNEL channel CHANNEL Upload files in this config channel dDEST_FILE dest file DEST_FILE Upload the file as this path delim start DELIM_START Start delimiter for variable interpolation delim end DELIM_END End delimiter for variable interpolation h help show help message and exit Table B 4 rhncfg manager add options Note By default the maximum file size for confiugration files is 128KB If you need t...

Page 255: ...dentify the two channels to be checked Refer to Section B 3 11 Determining the Number of File Revisions for related instructions Specify only one file name here since you are comparing the file against another version of itself For example rhncfg manager diff revisions n channel label1 r 1 n channel label2 r 1 path to file txt The output resembles the following tmp dest_path example config txt 200...

Page 256: ...help Show help message and exit Table B 7 rhncfg manager download channel options B 3 6 Getting the Contents of a File To direct the contents of a particular file to stdout issue the command rhncfg manager get channel channel label tmp dest_path example config txt You should see the contents of the file as output B 3 7 Listing All Files in a Channel To list all the files in a channel issue the com...

Page 257: ...rom a Channel To remove a file from a channel issue the command rhncfg manager remove channel channel label tmp dest_path example config txt If prompted for your RHN username and password provide them You should see output resembling Red Hat Network username rhn user Password Removing from config channel example channel3 tmp dest_path example config txt removed The following table lists the option...

Page 258: ...hannel To create a new revision of a file in a channel or add the first revision to that channel if none existed before for the given path issue the following command rhncfg manager update channel channel label dest file path to file txt local path to file The output resembles the following Pushing to channel example channel Local file example channel tmp dest_path example config txt remote file t...

Page 259: ...bel The output resembles the following Using config channel example channel4 Uploading tmp ola_world txt from blah4 tmp ola_world txt The following table lists the options available for rhncfg manager upload channel Option Description tTOPDIR topdir TOPDIR Directory all the file paths are relative to cCHANNEL channel CHANNEL List of channels the config info will be uploaded into Channels delimited...

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Page 261: ...y of the methods require a value for the system_id parameter This is the unique alphanumeric value assigned to each system when registered to RHN It can be found within the etc sysconfig rhn systemid file on each machine In addition you may use the download_system_id method within the system class to obtain the value C 3 Determining the sid Several methods require a value for the sid or server ID ...

Page 262: ...el 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 C 1 Channel Labels This is particularly necessary to know for the channel software create method C 7 Sample API Script The ...

Page 263: ...T rpc api Next we execute a login call which returns a session identifier that will be passed in all subsequent calls The syntax of this call is described at http HOST rpc api auth login my session client call auth login username password System calls This next call returns a list of systems available to the user The syntax of this call is described at http HOST rpc api system list_user_systems In...

Page 264: ...returns a list of packages present on this system The syntax of this call is described at http HOST rpc api system list_packages This will probably be a pretty long list my packages client call system list_packages session systemid for my package packages print Dumper package Additional system calls are described at http HOST rpc api system ...

Page 265: ... of the probes use Transmission Control Protocol TCP as their transport protocol Exceptions to this are noted within the individual probe references D 1 Probe Guidelines The following general guidelines outline the meaning of each probe state and provide guidance in setting thresholds for your probes The following list provides a brief description of the meaning of each probe state Unknown The pro...

Page 266: ... D 2 Apache 1 3 x and 2 0 x The probes in this section may be applied to instances of the Apache Web server Although the default values presume you will apply these probes using standard HTTP you may also use them over secure connections by changing the application protocol to https and the port to 443 D 2 1 Apache Processes The Apache Processes probe monitors the processes executed on an Apache W...

Page 267: ... probe to function properly Field Value Application Protocol http Port 80 Pathname server status UserAgent NOCpulse ApacheUptime 1 0 Username Password Timeout 15 Critical Maximum Current Requests number Warning Maximum Current Requests number Critical Maximum Request Rate events per second Warning Maximum Request Rate events per second Critical Maximum Traffic kilobytes per second Warning Maximum ...

Page 268: ...me should be included in the BEA Server Name parameter and appended to the end of the SNMP Community String field This causes the SNMP queries to be sent to the Administration Server host as is required but redirects the specific probe to the Managed Server host It should also be noted that the community string needed for probes run against Managed Server hosts should be in the form of community_p...

Page 269: ... SNMP Port 161 SNMP Version 1 BEA Domain Admin Server BEA Server Name myserver Critical Maximum Heap Free Warning Maximum Heap Free Warning Minimum Heap Free Critical Minimum Heap Free Table D 5 BEA WebLogic Heap Free settings D 3 3 BEA WebLogic JDBC Connection Pool The BEA WebLogic JDBC Connection Pool probe monitors the Java Database Connection JDBC pool on a domain Admin Server only no Managed ...

Page 270: ...e SNMP Community String public SNMP Port 161 SNMP Version 1 BEA Domain Admin Server BEA Server Name Table D 7 BEA WebLogic Server State settings D 3 5 BEA WebLogic Servlet The BEA WebLogic Servlet probe monitors the performance of a particular servlet deployed on a WebLogic server and collects the following metrics High Execution Time The highest amount of time in milliseconds that the servlet tak...

Page 271: ...atus in all instances of extended latency thereby nullifying the thresholds D 4 1 General Remote Program The General Remote Program probe allows you to run any command or script on your system and obtain a status string Note that the resulting message will be limited to 1024 bytes Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe...

Page 272: ...name cannot be changed and it must collect a number as its value Field Value Command OK Exit Status 0 Warning Exit Status 1 Critical Exit Status 2 Timeout 15 Table D 10 General Remote Program with Data settings D 4 3 General SNMP Check The General SNMP Check probe tests your SNMP server by specifying a single object identifier OID in dotted notation such as 1 3 6 1 2 1 1 1 0 and a threshold associ...

Page 273: ...Field Value Send Expect Port 1 Timeout 10 Critical Maximum Latency Warning Maximum Latency Table D 12 General TCP Check settings D 4 5 General UDP Check The General UDP Check probe tests your UDP server by verifying that it can connect to a system via the specified port number It collects the following metric Remote Service Latency The time it takes in seconds for the UDP server to answer a connec...

Page 274: ...res that the rhnmd daemon be running on the monitored system D 5 1 Linux CPU Usage The Linux CPU Usage probe monitors the CPU utilization on a system and collects the following metric CPU Percent Used The five second average of the percent of CPU usage at probe execution Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to run this probe Field Value T...

Page 275: ...ettings D 5 3 Linux Disk Usage The Linux Disk Usage probe monitors the disk space on a specific file system and collects the following metrics File System Used The percentage of the file system currently in use Space Used The amount of the file system in megabytes currently in use Space Available The amount of the file system in megabytes currently available Requirements The Red Hat Network Monito...

Page 276: ...s eth0 and collects the following metrics Input Rate The traffic in bytes per second going into the specified interface Output Rate The traffic in bytes per second going out of the specified interface Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe Field Value Interface Timeout 30 Critical Maximum Input Rate Warning Maximum Inp...

Page 277: ...memory no Timeout 15 Warning Maximum RAM Free Critical Maximum RAM Free Table D 21 Linux Memory Usage settings D 5 8 Linux Process Counts by State The Linux Process Counts by State probe identifies the number of processes in the following states Blocked A process that has been switched to the waiting queue and whose state has been switched to waiting Defunct A process that has terminated either be...

Page 278: ...lth The Linux Process Health probe monitors user specified processes and collects the following metrics CPU Usage The CPU usage rate for a given process in milliseconds per second This metric reports the time column of ps output which is the cumulative CPU time used by the process This makes the metric independent of probe interval allows sane thresholds to be set and generates usable graphs i e a...

Page 279: ...unning probe verifies that the specified process is functioning properly It counts either processes or process groups depending on whether the Count process groups checkbox is selected By default the checkbox is selected thereby indicating that the probe should count the number of process group leaders independent of the number of children This allows you for example to verify that two instances o...

Page 280: ...on so it may handle packets still in the network CLOSE_WAIT The remote side has been shut down and is now waiting for the socket to close FIN_WAIT The socket is closed and the connection is now shutting down ESTABLISHED The socket has a connection established SYN_RCVD The connection request has been received from the network This probe can be helpful in finding and isolating network traffic to spe...

Page 281: ...s by State settings D 5 14 Linux Users The Linux Users probe monitors the users of a system and reports the following metric Users The number of users currently logged in Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe Field Value Timeout 15 Critical Maximum Users Warning Maximum Users Table D 28 Linux Users settings D 5 15 Lin...

Page 282: ...e the probe last ran Regular Expression Match Rate The number of matches per minute since the probe last ran Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe For this probe to run the nocpulse user must be granted read access to your log files In addition to the name and location of the log file to be monitored you must provide ...

Page 283: ...e log file has grown since the probe last ran Lines The number of lines written to the log file since the probe last ran Line Rate The number of lines written per minute to the log file since the probe last ran Requirements The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe For this probe to run the nocpulse user must be granted read access to...

Page 284: ...r instructions D 7 1 MySQL Database Accessibility The MySQL Database Accessibility probe tests connectivity through a database account that has no database privileges If no connection is made a CRITICAL status results Field Value Username Password MySQL Port 3306 Database mysql Timeout 15 Table D 32 MySQL Database Accessibility settings D 7 2 MySQL Opened Tables The MySQL Opened Tables probe monit...

Page 285: ...QL Query Rate probe monitors the MySQL server and collects the following metric Query Rate The average number of queries per second per database server Field Value Username Password MySQL Port 3306 Timeout 15 Critical Maximum Query Rate Warning Maximum Query Rate Warning Minimum Query Rate Critical Minimum Query Rate Table D 35 MySQL Query Rate settings D 7 5 MySQL Threads Running The MySQL Thread...

Page 286: ... required to execute the dig request This is useful in monitoring the status of your DNS servers To monitor one of your DNS servers supply a well known host domain name such as a large search engine or corporate Web site Field Value Host or Address to look up Timeout 10 Critical Maximum Query Time Warning Maximum Query Time Table D 37 Network Services DNS Lookup settings D 8 2 Network Services FTP...

Page 287: ... Remote Service Latency Table D 39 Network Services IMAP Mail settings D 8 4 Network Services Mail Transfer SMTP The Network Services Mail Transfer SMTP probe determines if it can connect to the SMTP port on the system Specifying an optional port number overrides the default port 25 It collects the following metric Remote Service Latency The time it takes in seconds for the SMTP server to answer a...

Page 288: ...system to an individual IP address use the Remote Ping probe instead Refer to Section D 8 7 Network Services Remote Ping Field Value IP Address defaults to system IP Packets to send 20 Timeout 10 Critical Maximum Round Trip Average Warning Maximum Round Trip Average Critical Maximum Packet Loss Warning Maximum Packet Loss Table D 41 Network Services Ping settings D 8 6 Network Services POP Mail Th...

Page 289: ... Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon rhnmd must be running on the monitored system to execute this probe Field Value IP Address Packets to send 20 Timeout 10 Critical Maximum Round Trip Average Warning Maximum Round Trip Average Critical Maximum Packet Loss Warning Maximum Packet Loss Table D 43 Network Services Remote Ping settings D 8 8 Network Services RPCService The Network Services RPCService p...

Page 290: ...or a HTTP 1 message from the system unless you alter that value Specifying another port number overrides the default port of 443 This probe supports authentication Provide a username and password in the appropriate fields to use this feature Unlike most other probes this probe returns a CRITICAL status if it cannot contact the system within the timeout period Field Value URL Path Expect Header HTT...

Page 291: ... looks for a HTTP 1 message from the system unless you alter that value Specifying another port number will override the default port of 80 Unlike most other probes this probe will return a CRITICAL status if it cannot contact the system within the timeout period This probe supports authentication Provide a username and password in the appropriate fields to use this feature Also the optional Virtu...

Page 292: ...eir values cannot exceed the amount of time allotted to the timeout period Otherwise an UNKNOWN status is returned in all cases of extended latency thereby nullifying the thresholds For this reason Red Hat strongly recommends ensuring that timeout periods exceed all timed thresholds In this section this refers specifically to the probe TNS Ping Finally customers using these Oracle probes against a...

Page 293: ...locking sessions Field Value Oracle SID Oracle Username Oracle Password Oracle Port 1521 Time Blocking seconds 20 Timeout 30 Critical Maximum Blocking Sessions Warning Maximum Blocking Sessions Table D 50 Oracle Blocking Sessions settings D 9 4 Oracle Buffer Cache The Oracle Buffer Cache probe computes the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio so as to optimize the system global area SGA Database Buffer Cache si...

Page 294: ...this probe For this probe to run the nocpulse user must be granted read access to your log files Field Value Oracle Hostname or IP address Oracle SID Oracle Username Oracle Password Oracle Port 1521 ORACLE_HOME opt oracle Expected DB Name Timeout 30 Table D 52 Oracle Client Connectivity settings D 9 6 Oracle Data Dictionary Cache The Oracle Data Dictionary Cache probe computes the Data Dictionary ...

Page 295: ... temporary segment Field Value Oracle SID Oracle Username Oracle Password Oracle Port 1521 Timeout 30 Critical Maximum Disk Sort Ratio Warning Maximum Disk Sort Ratio Table D 54 Oracle Disk Sort Ratio settings D 9 8 Oracle Idle Sessions The Oracle Idle Sessions probe monitors an Oracle instance and collects the following metric Idle Sessions The number of Oracle sessions that are idle as determine...

Page 296: ...ed Extents Critical Maximum of Available Extents Warning Maximum of Available Extents Table D 56 Oracle Index Extents settings D 9 10 Oracle Library Cache The Oracle Library Cache probe computes the Library Cache Miss Ratio so as to optimize the SHARED_POOL_SIZE in init ora It collects the following metrics Library Cache Miss Ratio The rate at which a library cache pin miss occurs This happens whe...

Page 297: ...n instance Field Value Oracle SID Oracle Username Oracle Password Oracle Port 1521 Timeout 30 Critical Maximum Active Locks Warning Maximum Active Locks Table D 58 Oracle Locks settings D 9 12 Oracle Redo Log The Oracle Redo Log probe monitors an Oracle database instance and collects the following metrics Redo Log Space Request Rate The average number of redo log space requests per minute since th...

Page 298: ...ble that starts with 10 MB of space and that is configured with an extent size of 1 MB and max extents of 10 can grow to a maximum of 20 MB by being extended by 1 MB ten times This probe can be configured to alert by 1 the number of allocated extents e g go critical when the table has been extended 5 or more times or 2 the table is extended past a certain percentage of its max extents e g go criti...

Page 299: ... 61 Oracle Tablespace Usage settings D 9 15 Oracle TNS Ping The Oracle TNS Ping probe determines if an Oracle listener is alive and collects the following metric Remote Service Latency The time it takes in seconds for the Oracle server to answer a connection request Field Value TNS Listener Port 1521 Timeout 15 Critical Maximum Remote Service Latency Warning Maximum Remote Service Latency Table D ...

Page 300: ...aximum Probe Execution Time Average Table D 64 RHN Satellite Execution Time settings D 10 3 RHN Satellite Interface Traffic The RHN Satellite Interface Traffic probe monitors the interface traffic on a Satellite and collects the following metrics Input Rate The amount of traffic in bytes per second the device receives Output Rate The amount of traffic in bytes per second the device sends Field Val...

Page 301: ...s D 10 6 RHN Satellite Probe Count The RHN Satellite Probe Count probe monitors the number of probes on a Satellite and collects the following metric Probes The number of individual probes running on a Satellite Field Value Critical Maximum Probe Count Warning Maximum Probe Count Table D 68 RHN Satellite Probe Count settings D 10 7 RHN Satellite Process Counts The RHN Satellite Process Counts prob...

Page 302: ...number of processes on a Satellite and collects the following metric Processes The number of processes running simultaneously on the machine Field Value Critical Maximum Processes Warning Maximum Processes Table D 70 RHN Satellite Processes settings D 10 9 RHN Satellite Process Health The RHN Satellite Process Health probe monitors customer specified processes and collects the following metrics CP...

Page 303: ...emory Used Warning Maximum Virtual Memory Used Table D 71 RHN Satellite Process Health settings D 10 10 RHN Satellite Process Running The RHN Satellite Process Running probe verifies that the specified process is running Specify the process by its command name or process ID PID Entering a PID overrides the entry of a command name A Critical status results if the probe cannot verify the command or ...

Page 304: ... the number of users currently logged into a Satellite A CRITICAL status results if the value exceeds the Critical threshold A WARNING status results if the value exceeds the Warning threshold Field Value Critical Maximum Users Warning Maximum Users Table D 74 RHN Satellite Users settings ...

Page 305: ...e packages Channel A channel is a list of packages Channels are used to choose packages to be installed from client systems Every client system must be subscribed to one Base Channel and can be subscribed to one or more Child Channel Child Channel A child channel is a Channel associated with a Base Channel but contains extra packages Client System See Registered System Digital Certificate A client...

Page 306: ...e level including user management system groups and enhanced system details Notification Method An email address to which RHN Monitoring messages will be sent Satellite Administrator Satellite Administrator are sets of users that have the highest level of control over an organization s Red Hat Network account Members of this group can add users systems and system groups to the organization as well...

Page 307: ...ackage the installation date and more RPM Update Red Hat Network option to deliver the RPM packages based on the Errata Alert list to a client system without user intervention If this feature is selected packages are delivered through the Red Hat Network Daemon running on the client system Security Alert An Errata Alert that pertains to system security Sibling Siblings are virtual guests running o...

Page 308: ...rs the same services as the Basic subscription did plus more new features Virtual Guest Any of the virtual instances running on the virtual host under the control of the hypervisor Also referred to as domain U or domU Virtual Host The physical system that supports the hypervisor and all guest systems The virtual host may also be referred to as domain 0 or dom0 Yellowdog Updater Modified yum The Ye...

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Page 311: ... errata 125 list of 122 My 124 packages 125 Popular 124 Red Hat 124 Shared 124 Channels and Packages Channel List 122 child channel 122 client applications obtaining 5 redirecting 212 client systems configuring 212 registering 213 updating 214 Cobbler 195 cobbler 195 config management system preparation 130 configuration actions 129 channel create 131 files 129 Schedule 129 Configuration Managemen...

Page 312: ... 263 Inodes 263 Interface Traffic 264 Load 264 Memory Usage 265 probes nocpulse 262 Process Count Total 266 Process Counts by State 265 Process Health 266 Process Running 267 Swap Usage 268 TCP Connections by State 268 Users 269 Virtual Memory 269 List Navigation explanation of 60 LogAgent Log Pattern Match 270 Log Size 271 probes nocpulse 270 M macros within configuration Files interpolation 133 ...

Page 313: ...ents 286 Tablespace Usage 286 TNS Ping 287 Overview 62 Account Deactivation 65 Addresses 64 Email 64 Your Account 64 Your Preferences 65 overview of website 56 P package installation scheduled 4 package list Updating on server 40 78 Package Updater pup complete description 15 packages filter 126 password change 64 port 22 159 port 4545 157 preferences change 65 language 65 locale 65 probe guidelin...

Page 314: ...s Counts 289 Process Health 290 Process Running 291 Processes 290 Swap 291 Users 292 WebLogic Execute Queue 256 Heap Free 257 JDBC Connection Pool 257 Server State 258 Servlet 258 Probes Monitoring 163 probes Apache 254 General 259 Linux 262 LogAgent nocpulse 270 managing 164 MySQL 272 Network Services 274 on the RHN Server 165 Oracle 280 RHN Satellite 287 thresholds 164 WebLogic 256 Provisioning ...

Page 315: ...ing general settings 41 configuring package exceptions 44 configuring retrieval and installation 42 excluding packages 44 graphical options 22 initial description 1 installing GPG keys 39 log file 41 registering with 24 starting 21 synchronizing system profile 40 reference guide bug reporting xii conventions xi introduction to the xi registering with activation keys 46 Registration 221 as part of ...

Page 316: ...etails 88 system group list status 87 System Groups assigning and removing 85 System Group List 86 system groups joining and leaving 85 system list 68 System Profile 228 Custom Information 77 Notes 77 Reactivation 76 Updating hardware profile 77 Updating package list 40 78 Updating Properties 75 System Set Manager 89 systems deleting 72 entitling 66 overview 68 searching 96 viewing a list of 68 vi...

Page 317: ...rmation 101 Errata 116 Erratum Search 120 Help 152 language 65 locale 65 logging in 61 Monitoring 144 navigation bar 55 overview 55 Overview 62 Relevant Errata 117 Schedule 136 Software Channel Details 125 Software Search 127 stored profiles 101 System Details 71 System Entitlements 66 System Group List 86 System Groups 86 System List 68 System Search 96 Systems 67 Systems Overview 68 Users 138 Yo...

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