This section summarizes all of the categories and primary pages (those linked from the top and left navigation bars) within the RHN website. It does not list the many subpages, tabs and subtabs accessible from the left navigation bar and individual pages. Each area of the website is explained in detail later in this chapter:
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Your RHN — View and manage your primary account information and obtain help.
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Your RHN — Obtain a quick overview of your account. It notifies you if your systems need attention, provides a quick link to go directly to them, and displays the most recent Errata Alerts for your account.
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Your Account — Update your personal profile and addresses.
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Your Preferences — Indicate if you wish to receive email notifications about Errata Alerts for your systems, set how many items are displayed at one time for lists such as system lists and system group lists, set your time zone, and identify your contact options.
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Locale Preferences — Configure language, timezone, and other customizations for your particular locale.
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Subscription Management — Manage base and add-on system entitlements, such as Management, Provisioning, and Virtualization.
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Systems — Manage all of your systems (including virtual guest systems) here.
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Overview —
— View a summary of your systems or system groups showing how many Errata Alerts each system has and which systems are entitled.
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Systems — Select and view subsets of your systems by specific criteria, such as Virtual Systems, Unentitled, Recently Registered, Proxy, and Inactive.
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System Groups —
— List your system groups. Create additional groups.
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System Set Manager —
— Perform various actions on collective sets of systems, including scheduling errata updates, package management, listing and creating new groups, and managing channel entitlements.
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Advanced Search —
— Quickly search all of your systems by specific criteria, such as name, hardware, devices, system info, networking, packages, and location.
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Activation Keys —
— Generate an activation key for an RHN-entitled system. This activation key can be used to grant a specified level of entitlement or group membership to a newly registered system with the rhnreg_kscommand. -
Stored Profiles —
— View system profiles used to provision systems.
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Custom System Info —
— Create and edit system information keys containing completely customizable values that can be assigned while provisioning systems.
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Kickstart —
— Display and modify various aspects of kickstart profiles used in provisioning systems.
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Errata — View and manage Errata Alerts here.
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Errata — List Errata Alerts and download associated RPMs.
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Advanced Search — Search Errata Alerts based on specific criteria, such as synopsis, advisory type, and package name.
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Manage Errata — Manage the errata for an organization's channels.
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Clone Errata — Clone errata for an organization for ease of replication and distribution across an organization.
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Channels — View and manage the available RHN channels and the files they contain.
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Software Channels — View a list of all software channels and those applicable to your systems.
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Package Search — Search packages using all or some portion of the package name, description, or summary, with support for limiting searches to supported platforms.
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Manage Software Channels —
— Create and edit channels used to deploy configuration files.
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Configuration — Keep track of and manage configuration channels, actions, and individual configuration files.
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Overview — A general dashboard view that shows a configuration summary
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Configuration Channels — List and create configuration channels from which any subscribed system can receive configuration files
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Configuration Files — List and create files from which systems receive configuration input
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Systems — List the systems that have RHN-managed configuration files.
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Schedule — Keep track of your scheduled actions.
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Pending Actions — List scheduled actions that have not been completed.
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Failed Actions — List scheduled actions that have failed.
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Completed Actions — List scheduled actions that have been completed. Completed actions can be archived at any time.
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Archived Actions — List completed actions that have been selected to archive.
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Users —
— View and manage users for your organization.
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User List —
— List users for your organization.
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Monitoring —
— Run probes and receive notifications regarding systems.
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Status —
— View probes by state.
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Notification —
— View contact methods established for your organization.
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Probe Suites —
— Manage your monitoring infrastructure using suites of monitoring probes that apply to one or more assigned systems.
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Satellite Tools (visible only to Satellite administrators) — List, create, and manage one or more Satellite organizations, from which the Satellite administrator can assign channel entitlements, create and assign administrators for each organization, and other tasks.
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Organizations — List and create new organizations
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Subscriptions — List and manage the software and system entitlements for all organizations across the Satellite.
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Users List all users on the Satellite, across all organizations. Click individual usernames to change administrative privileges for the user.
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Users created for organization administration can only be configured by the organization administrator, not the Satellite administrator.
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Satellite Configuration — Make general configuration changes to the Satellite, including Proxy settings, Certificate configuration, Bootstrap Script configuration, Organization changes, and Restart the Satellite Server.
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Task Engine Status — configures the daemon that runs on the Satellite server itself and performs routine operations, such as database cleanup, Errata mailings, and other tasks that are performed in the background.
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