Registering With Activation Keys - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CLIENT Configuration Manual

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
Server or RHN Satellite Server. The command for this step could look something 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 command 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
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
information on those systems must be set manually. All other settings, such as
the server URL, transfer properly.
/pub/
Bootstrap.
to
rhn_register up2date
Using the
--configure
directory of the RHN Proxy
. Therefore, the SSL certificate
Option
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