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Provisioning — offers the highest level of functionality. It should be used to provision multiple sys-
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tems that will need to be re-installed and reconfigured regularly. The Provisioning offering provides
tools for kickstarting machines, managing their configuration files, conducting snapshot rollbacks,
and inputting searchable custom system information, as well as all of the functionality included in
the Management service level.
The System Entitlements page allows you to view and promote the entitlements for your registered
systems. Only increases in entitlement levels are allowed. Systems cannot be re-entitled to a lower
entitlement level. For instance, a system entitled to the Update service level can be promoted to the
Management level, but this action cannot be reversed.
To change an individual entitlement, select the entitlement from the system's pulldown menu and
click the Update Entitlements button on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Click the name of
a system to see details about it. If no drop-down menu exists for your Update-level system, you may
need to purchase a Management entitlement. Do this through the Buy Now page under Your RHN.
Warning
Changing a system's entitlement is an irreversible action. You may be unable to change the entitle-
ment levels of some systems. For more information, refer to the RHN entitlement policy linked from
the System Entitlements page.
In addition, you may entitle all newly registered systems to the Managements service level at once
by clicking the Auto-Entitle Newest Servers Now link at the bottom of the page. To use this link,
which appears only when new, unentitled systems exist, first make sure you have enough Management
entitlements available. If you need to purchase additional entitlements, click the Buy them now link
at the top of the page. After auto-entitling, a message appears at the top of the System Entitlements
page indicating the number of systems successfully entitled to the Management service level.

4.4.6. Advanced Search

The System Search page allows you to search through your systems according to specific criteria.
These criteria include custom system information, system details, hardware, devices, interface, net-
working, packages, and location. The activity selections (Days Since Last Checkin, for instance) can
be especially useful in finding and removing outdated System Profiles. Type the keyword, select the
criterion to search by, use the radio buttons to identify whether you wish to query all systems or only
those loaded in the System Set Manager, and click the Search button. Yo may also select the Invert
Result checkbox to reverse your results list.
The results appear at the bottom of the page. For details about using the resulting system list, refer to
Section 4.4.2 Systems.

4.4.7. Activation Keys

RHN Management customers can generate activation keys through the RHN website. These keys
can then be used to register the Red Hat Linux system, entitle the system to an RHN service level
and subscribe the system to specific channels and system groups through the command line utility
. Refer to Section 2.5 Registering with Activation Keys for instructions on use.
rhnreg_ks
To generate an activation key:
1. Select Systems => Activation Keys from the top and left navigation bars.
2. Click the create new key link at the top-left corner.
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