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the top-right corner. In the resulting page, type its name and description in the identified fields and
click the Create Group button. To add or remove the selected systems in any of the system groups,
toggle the appropriate radio buttons and click the Alter Membership button.
Channels — Tool to manage channel subscriptions. To subscribe or unsubscribe the selected sys-
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tems in any of the channels, toggle the appropriate radio buttons and click the Alter Subscriptions
button.
Misc — Links to update System Profiles and preferences for the system set:
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System Profile Updates — Clicking Update Hardware Profile, then the Confirm Refresh
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button schedules a hardware profile update. Clicking Update Package Profile, then the Confirm
Refresh button schedules a package profile update.
Reboot Systems — Selecting the appropriate systems and then clicking the Reboot Systems
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button sets those systems for reboot.
Delete Systems — Clicking Delete System Profiles, then the Confirm Deletions button removes
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the selected profiles permanently.
System Preferences — Toggling the Yes and No radio buttons and then clicking the Change
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Preferences button alters your notification preferences for the selected systems. All of these
preferences may also be applied to systems individually through the Properties subtab of the
System Details page. Refer to Section 4.4.2.6 System Details for instructions.
Receive Notifications of Updates/Errata — This setting keeps you abreast of all advisories
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pertaining to your systems. Anytime an update is produced and released for a system under
your supervision, a notification is sent via email.
Include system in Daily Summary — This setting includes the selected systems in a daily
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summary of system events. (By default, all Enterprise 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 systems 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 Enterprise systems. This means packages associated with Errata will
be updated without any user intervention. Customers should note that Red Hat does not rec-
ommend 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.

4.4.5. System Entitlements

To use all of the features of RHN, your systems must be entitled — subscribed to an RHN service
level. Every user receives one free Red Hat Network Basic entitlement subscription.
Use the System Entitlements page to configure which systems are entitled to which service offerings.
There are two types of entitlements:
Basic — should be used to manage a single Red Hat Linux system. It includes Errata Alerts, Sched-
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uled Errata Updates, Package Installation, and the Red Hat Update Agent.
Enterprise — should be used to manage multiple systems with multiple system administrators. In
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addition to the features of the Basic offering, it includes system group management, user manage-
ment, and the System Set Manager interface to quickly perform actions on multiple systems.
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