The RHN Entitlement Certificate is an XML document that looks something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rhn-cert version="0.1">
  <rhn-cert-field name="product">RHN-SATELLITE-001</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="owner">Clay's Precious Satellite</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="issued">2005-01-11 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="expires">2005-03-11 00:00:00</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="slots">30</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="provisioning-slots">30</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="nonlinux-slots">30</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="10" family="rhel-cluster"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="30" family="rhel-ws-extras"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="10" family="rhel-gfs"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="10" family="rhel-es-extras"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="40" family="rhel-as"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="channel-families" quantity="30" family="rhn-tools"/>
  <rhn-cert-field name="satellite-version">3.6</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-field name="generation">2</rhn-cert-field>
  <rhn-cert-signature>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: Crypt::OpenPGP 1.03

iQBGBAARAwAGBQJCAG7yAAoJEJ5yna8GlHkysOkAn07qmlUrkGKs7/5yb8H/nboG
mhHkAJ9wdmqOeKfcBa3IUDL53oNMEBP/dg==
=0Kv7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
</rhn-cert-signature>
</rhn-cert>

The initial RHN Entitlement Certificate is generated by a member of the RHN team and emailed to a consultant or customer prior to installation. This process helps guarantee that we do not inadvertently install any RHN Satellite Servers that the RHN team does not know about.

Save the XML file to the Satellite machine in preparation for activation.