Configuring The Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool With Satellite - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CLIENT Configuration Manual

Chapter 2. Client Applications
Beginning with
up2date-4.2.38
updates from a series of RHN Servers. This can be especially helpful in sustaining constant
updates if your primary RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server may be taken offline.
To use this feature, first ensure that you are running the required version of
manually add the secondary servers to the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
(FQDN) for the Proxy or Satellite immediately after the primary server, separated by a
semicolon (;). For example:
serverURL[comment]=Remote server URL
serverURL=https://your_primary.your_domain.com/XMLRPC; \
https://your_secondary.your_domain.com/XMLRPC;
noSSLServerURL[comment]=Remote server URL without SSL
noSSLServerURL=http://your_primary.your_domain.com/XMLRPC; \
https://your_secondary.your_domain.com/XMLRPC;
Connection to the servers is attempted in the order provided here. You can include as many
servers as you wish. You may list the central RHN Servers, as well. This makes sense,
however, only if the client systems can reach the Internet.
3. Configuring the Red Hat Network Alert Notification
Tool with Satellite
The Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool, the round icon in the panel of your Red Hat
desktop, can be configured on systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or later to recognize
updates available from custom channels on your RHN Satellite Server. You must ensure the
RHN Satellite Server is configured to support this feature. (RHN Proxy Server supports the
applet without modification of client or server.) The steps to configure the Red Hat Network
Alert Notification Tool are as follows:
1. Ensure that your RHN Satellite Server is version 3.4 or later and that you have the
package installed on the Satellite. The package can be found in the RHN
rhns-applet
Satellite software channel for versions 3.4 and newer.
2. Retrieve the
rhn-applet-actions
Tools software channel. Install the package on all Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and newer
client systems to be notified of custom updates with the Red Hat Network Alert Notification
Tool. The client systems must be entitled to the Management or Provisioning service levels.
3. Within the Satellite's version of the RHN website, go to the System Details page for each
system and click the link within the RHN Applet area to redirect the Red Hat Network Alert
Notification Tool to the Satellite.
The next time the applet is started, it will apply its new configuration and connect to the RHN
Satellite Server for updates.
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, the Red Hat Update Agent can be configured to seek
serverURL
configuration file (as root). Add the fully qualified domain names
package with
up2date
up2date
and
noSSLServerURL
or through the Red Hat Network
. Then
settings in the