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Figure 2-13. Registration Finished
2.6. Entitling Your System
Now that you have registered your system, it must be entitled before you can receive up-
dated packages. In other words, you must subscribe it to a service level offering. Everyone
automatically receives one free Basic subscription after creating an account by registering a
system for RHN or creating a redhat.com account.
To entitle a system, go to http://rhn.redhat.com and login using the same username and
password you just used in the Red Hat Network Registration Client . On the left navigation
bar, click Entitlements under the Your RHN category. The Entitlement Manager tells you
how many entitlements you have left. If you have one or more left, check the checkbox
under the
Entitled
column beside the name of the system that you just registered. Then
click the Update Entitlements button at the bottom of the page. The number of entitlements
remaining will decrease, and your system is now ready to use the Red Hat Update Agent
and Workgroup. Refer to Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 for details on how to use them. If you do
not have any entitlement slots left, enter the number you want to purchase and click the Buy
Now! button to purchase additional subscriptions.
2.7. Text Mode RHN Registration Client
You can force the Red Hat Network Registration Client to run in text mode with the com-
mand:
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 is an
equal number of screens and fields in both versions. Thus, if you are using the text mode
version, you can still follow the instructions that begin in Section 2.2.