Glossary - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 Reference Manual

Glossary

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Action
Activation Key
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Base Channel
Bug Fix Alert
Bugzilla
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Channel
Child Channel
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A task that is scheduled by a system administrator using Red
Hat Network to be performed on one or more client systems.
For example, an action can be scheduled to update the kernel
packages on all the systems within a selected group.
RHN Management and Provisioningcustomers can generate
activation keys through the RHN website. Each unique key can
then be used to register a Red Hat system, entitle the system
to RHN, subscribe the system to specific channels, and
subscribe the system to RHN system groups through the
command line utility
rhnreg_ks
package.
A base channel is a type of
packages based on a specific architecture and Red Hat
release. For example, all the packages in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux AS 3 for the x86 architecture make a base channel.
An Errata Alert that pertains to a bug fix.
Bugzilla is an online application
(http://www.redhat.com/bugzilla
communicate directly with the developers. From Bugzilla, users
can submit bug reports and feature requests for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and related open source packages.
A channel is a list of packages. Channels are used to choose
packages to be installed from client systems. Every client
system must be subscribed to one
subscribed to one or more
A child channel is a Channel
from the
rhn_register
Channel that consists of a list of
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) that allows users to
Base Channel
Child Channel .
associated with a Base Channel
and can be
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