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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website
Overview — A summary of the system's details. In addition to the system status message,
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the Overview subtab contains basic System Info, Subscribed Channels, and System Properties.
Clicking the Alter Channel Subscriptions link takes you to the Channels tab, while clicking
the Edit these properties link takes you to the Properties subtab. See the following sections for
more information.
Properties — The profile name, entitlement level, notification choice, daily summary, auto-
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Errata update, and physical location of the system, including street address, city, state, country,
building, room, and rack. To modify this information, make your changes and click the Update
Properties button. Note that many of these properties can be set for multiple systems at once
through the System Set Manager interface. Refer to Section 4.4.4 System Set Manager for de-
tails. The following properties deserve additional explanation:
Receive Notifications of Updates/Errata — This setting keeps you abreast of all advisories
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pertaining to the system. Anytime an update is produced and released for the system, a notifi-
cation is sent via email.
Include system in daily summary report calculations — This setting includes the system in
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a daily summary of system events. (By default, all Management systems are included in the
summary.) These are actions affecting packages, such as scheduled Errata Updates, and system
reboots or failures to check in. In addition to including the system here, you must choose to
receive email notifications in the Your Preferences page of the Your RHN category. Refer
to Section 4.3.2 Your Preferences for instructions. Note that RHN will send these summaries
only to verified email addresses.
Automatic application of relevant errata — This setting allows you have all Errata Updates
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automatically applied to a system. This means packages associated with Errata will be updated
without any user intervention. Customers should note that Red Hat does not recommend the
use of the auto-update feature for production systems because conflicts between packages and
environments can cause system failures. The Red Hat Network Daemon must be enabled on
the systems for this feature to work.
Hardware — Detailed information about the system, including networking, BIOS, storage, and
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other devices. This appears only if you selected to include the hardware profile for this machine
during registration. If the hardware profile looks incomplete or outdated, click the Schedule
Hardware Refresh button to schedule a Hardware Profile update for your system. The next time
the RHN Daemon connects to RHN, it will update your System Profile with the latest list of
hardware.
Notes — A place to create notes about the system. To add a new note, click the create new note
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button, type a subject and details, and click the Create button. To modify a note, click on its
subject in the list of notes, make your changes, and click the Update button. To remove a note,
click on its subject in the list of notes and then click the delete note button.
Connection — The system's path to the package repository. Regardless of whether your client
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systems receive updates from the central RHN servers or an RHN Satellite Server, it is important
to know if packages are being routed through any RHN Proxy Servers. This subtab identifies the
proxies being used and the order in which they receive updates. A one (1) indicates the top proxy
connected to either RHN or a satellite. If no proxy is used, you receive a message stating, "This
system connects directly and not through a proxy."
Errata — Contains a list of Errata Alerts applicable to the system. To apply updates, select them
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and click the Apply Errata button. Double-check the updates to be applied on the confirmation
page, then click the Confirm button. After confirming, the action is added to the Pending Actions
list under Schedule. Errata that have been scheduled cannot be selected for update. In the place of
a checkbox, you will find a clock icon that, when clicked, takes you to the Action Details page.
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