Command Line Config Management Tools; Red Hat Network Actions Control; General Command Line Options - Red Hat NETWORK 4.0.5 Reference Manual

Command Line Config Management Tools
In addition to the options provided in the RHN website, Red Hat Network offers two
command line tools for managing a system's configuration files: the Red Hat Network
Configuration Client and the Red Hat Network Configuration Manager. There is a
complementary Red Hat Network Actions Control tool that is used to enable and dis-
able configuration management on client systems. If you do not yet have these these tools
installed, they can be found within the RHN Tools child channel for your operating system.
Tip
Keep in mind, whenever a configuration file is deployed via RHN, a backup of the previous
file including its full path is made in the
affected system. The backup retains its filename but has a
appended.
A.1. Red Hat Network Actions Control
The Red Hat Network Actions Control (
to enable and disable configuration management of a system. Client systems cannot be
managed in this fashion by default. This tool allows Organization Administrators to en-
able or disable specific modes of allowable actions such as: deploying a configuration
file onto the system, uploading a file from the system, diffing what is currently man-
aged on a system and what is available, or allowing running arbitrary remote commands.
These various modes are enabled/disabled by placing/removing files and directories in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/
on the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/
be run by someone with root access.
A.1.1. General command line options
There is a page available, as there are for most command line tools, though the use
man
of this tool is simple enough to describe here briefly. Simply decide what RHN scheduled
actions should be enabled for use by system administrators. The following options enable
the various scheduled action modes:
/var/lib/rhncfg/backups/
rhn-actions-control
directory. Due to the default permissions
directory, RHN Actions Control will most likely have to
Appendix A.
.rhn-cfg-backup
) application is used
directory on the
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