6.7.1. Preparing Systems for Config Management

For a system to have its configuration managed through RHN, it must have the appropriate tools and config-enable file installed. These tools may already be installed on your system, especially if you kickstarted the system with configuration management functionality. If not, they can be found within the RHN Tools child channel for your distribution. Download and install the latest rhncfg* packages. They are:

rhncfg — The base libraries and functions needed by all rhncfg-* packages.
rhncfg-actions — The code required to run configuration actions scheduled via the RHN website.
rhncfg-client — A command line interface to the client features of the RHN Configuration Management system.
rhncfg-management — A command line interface used to manage RHN configuration.

Next, you must enable your system to schedule configuration actions. This is done using the rhn-actions-control command on the client system. This command is included in the rhncfg-actions RPM. The RHN Actions Control (rhn-actions-control) enables or disables specific modes of allowable actions. Refer to Section A.1, “Red Hat Network Actions Control” for instructions.