8.1.2.1. Your Host System Has Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or Earlier Installed
In this case, register your host system to your Satellite and schedule the kickstart process via the Satellite's web interface.
First, register your host system to your Satellite. Use ssh to connect to your host system. Register your host system to your satellite issuing the following command as root:
rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=htt://your-satellite.example.com/XMLRPC \ --username=username --password=password
If your host system is already registered to a different Red Hat Network server, asdd the --force option to the command above.
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 red navigation bar. You should see the host system you just registered — click on its profile name to access its system profile page.
Add a provisioning entitlement to your host system. From your host system profile page, click on Details ⇒ Properties tab. Check the Provisioning checkbox in the Add-On Entitlements field, and click the Update Properties button in the lower right hand corner of the screen.
Next, schedule the kickstart. You are brought back to the host system's profile page. You should now see a Provisioning tab in the system profile. Click on this tab. This should bring up the Schedule Kickstart page for the system.
Select the kickstart profile we created for this host earlier. Then, select the Schedule Kickstart and Finish button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.
If you do not see the kickstart 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 profile. Click on the Kickstart Detail ⇒ Operating System tab, and select items under the Base Channel and Available Trees selections that match the architecture of your host system. Click on the Update Kickstart button in the lower right hand corner of the screen, and navigate back to the host system's Schedule Kickstart page, following the steps above this note.
After scheduling the kickstart, you will be taken to a Kickstart Status screen in the Satellite's web interface. Keep your web browser open to that page to follow along with the host system's progress.
Use ssh to connect to the host system, and run the command rhn_check. This should cause the kickstart process to behind immediately rather than the next time the rhn_check process runs on the system. You should immediately see output indicating the start of a kickstart process on the host system, and it will eventually warn you that the system is going dow for reboot in three minutes.
After three minutes have passed, the system will reboot. Follow the progress of the kickstart via the Satellite web interface.
Depending on various factors, the kickstart process may take between ten and thirty minutes. At the end of this time period, the Satellite kickstart status page should indicate if the kickstart finished successfully.
If the kickstart fails, the Satellite kickstart status page should indicate that there was a failure. For more details on why the kickstart failed, click on the Events ⇒ History tab in the host system's profile, and click on the name of the kickstart event that failed to get more details on the failure. It may also be useful to consult /var/log/up2date on the host system for troubleshooting purposes.