Registering With Activation Keys; Configure Option - Red Hat NETWORK 4.1.0 - CLIENT Configuration Manual

Chapter 2. Client Applications
, and manually updating the configuration files.( To see how virtually all
--configure
reconfiguration can be scripted, see Chapter 6 Manually Scripting the Configuration.)

2.2.1. Registering with Activation Keys

Red Hat recommends using activation keys for registering and configuring client systems
that access RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. Activation keys can be used to
register, entitle, and subscribe systems in a batch. Refer to the Activation Keys section of
the Red Hat Update Agent chapter within the RHN Management Reference Guide for
instructions on use.
Registering with an activation key has four basic steps:
1. Generate an Activation Key as described in the Activation Keys section of the Red
Hat Update Agent chapter within the RHN Management Reference Guide
2. Import custom GPG keys.
3. Download and install the SSL Certificate RPM from the
Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. The command for this step could look some-
thing like this:
rpm -Uvh\
http://your-satellite.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
4. Register the system with your RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. The com-
mand for this step could look something like:
rhnreg_ks --activationkey mykey --serverUrl https://your-satellite.com/XMLRPC
Alternatively, most of the above steps can be combined in a shell script that includes the
following lines:
wget -0 - http://your-satellite-DQDN/pub/bootstrap.sh | bash \
&& rhnreg_ks --activation-key my_key --serverUrl \
https://your-satellite-FQDN/XMLRPC
The bootstrap script, generated at installation and available for both RHN Satellite Server
and RHN Proxy Server, is such a script. The script and the RHN Bootstrap that generates
it are discussed in detail in Chapter 5 Using RHN Bootstrap.
Warning
Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and versions of Red Hat Linux prior to 8.0
may experience problems using Activation Keys to migrate SSL certificate settings from
to
rhn_register
must be set manually. All other settings, such as the server URL, transfer properly.
. Therefore, the SSL certificate information on those systems
up2date
directory of the RHN
/pub/
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