Red Hat NETWORK BASIC - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 4.0, Руководство пользователя

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Chapter 1. What is Red Hat Network? 3
Hat Network organization with the ability to add and remove systems and users. When users other
than the Organization Administrator log into the Red Hat Network website, they see only the systems
they have permission to administer.
To create an account that can be used to entitle systems to the RHN Enterprise, go to
http://rhn.redhat.com/ and click on the
Create Account
link under the
Sign In
fields. On the Sign
Up for Red Hat Network page, click
Create a new corporate account
. After creating a corporate
account, you may add users within your organization to it.
The Red Hat Network features available to you depend on the subscription level for each Red Hat
Linux system.
Systems subscribed to RHN Enterprise may access the following features:
1. System Set Manager that allows administrators to perform an action on a selected set of sys-
tems at the same time
2. Enhanced system details including the location of the system
3. System groups
4. System search
5. User management
6. Multiple administrators
7. Grant or deny users access to selected system groups
8. Organization Administrator can modify the user details of all users within the organization
To learn more about the additional RHN Enterprise features, read the Red Hat Network Enterprise
User Reference Guide available in HTML and PDF formats at http://www.redhat.com/docs/.
1.4. Automatic Notifications and Scheduled Package Installations
You can configure the Red Hat Network to send you email notifications of new and updated software
packages as soon as the packages are available through RHN. You can also schedule package installs
or package updates. The benefits include:
•
Reduced time and effort required by system administrators to stay on top of the Red Hat Errata list
•
Minimized security vulnerabilities in your network by providing the patches as soon as Red Hat
releases them
•
Filtered list of package updates (packages not relevant to your network are not included)
•
Reliable method of managing multiple systems with similar configurations
1.5. Security, Quality Assurance, and Red Hat Network
Red Hat Network provides significant benefits to your network including security and quality assur-
ance. All transactions made between you and Red Hat Network are encrypted, and all RPM packages
are signed with Red Hat’s GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) signature to ensure authenticity.
Red Hat Network incorporates the following security measures:
1. Your System Profile available at http://rhn.redhat.com is accessible only with an RHN-verified
username and password.