Because of the RHN Satellite Server's unique closed environment, its users are provided with abilities not available to any other Red Hat Network customers. In addition, the Satellite itself will also require maintenance. This chapter discusses the procedures that should be followed to carry out administrative functions outside of standard use, as well as apply patches to the RHN Satellite Server.
Since the RHN Satellite Server consists of a multitude of individual components, Red Hat provides a master service that allows you to stop, start, or retrieve status from the various services in the appropriate order: rhn-satellite. This helper service accepts all of the typical commands:
service rhn-satellite start service rhn-satellite stop service rhn-satellite restart service rhn-satellite status |
Use the rhn-satellite service to shut down and bring up the entire RHN Satellite Server and retrieve status messages from all of its services at once.