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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 Enterprise
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system in a daily 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 system here, you must
choose to receive email notifications in the Your Preferences page of the Your RHN cate-
gory. 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.
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.
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. Only those Errata that have not been scheduled or were sched-
uled and failed or canceled are listed. Updates already pending are excluded from the list.
To help users determine whether an update has been scheduled, a Status column exists within the
Errata table. Possible values are: None, Pending, Picked Up, Completed, and Failed. This column
identifies only the latest action related to an Errata. For instance, if an action fails and you resched-
ule it, this column will show the status of the Errata as Pending only (with no mention of the
previous failure). Clicking a status other than None takes you to the Action Details page. This
column corresponds to one on the Affected Systems tab of the Errata Details page.
Packages — Manages the packages on the system.
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Packages — The default display of the Packages tab describes the options available to you and
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provides the means to update your package list. If after exploring the packages, you believe the
list is outdated or incomplete (or you installed the packages manually and did not have RHN
install them), click the Update Package List button on the bottom right-hand corner of this
page. The next time the RHN Daemon connects to RHN, it will update your System Profile with
the latest list of installed packages.
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