Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 Reference Manual page 290

Glossary
Probe Suite
Provisioning
R
Registered System
Red Hat Network Daemon
Red Hat Network
Registration Client
Red Hat Update Agent
RPM
RPM Database
RPM Update
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States include: OK, Warning, Critical, Pending, Unknown
collection or group of RHN Monitoring Probes.
One of the RHN service level offerings. It has more features
than the Management service level, including kickstarting,
reconfiguring, tracking, and reverting systems.
A system that is registered with Red Hat Network. Also known
as a client system.
The RHN client daemon (
Network for scheduled actions.
The RHN client application (
information about the client system, creates a
and Digital Certificate
Hat Network servers, and registers the system with Red Hat
Network.
The RHN client application (
retrieve and install all updated packages for the client system
on which the application is run. Use the Red Hat Update
Agent Configuration Tool to configure its preferences,
including whether to install the packages after they are
downloaded.
A software package manager that was developed by Red Hat
Inc.. It can be used to build, install, query, verify, update, and
uninstall software packages. All software updates from RHN
are delivered in RPM format.
Each Red Hat Enterprise Linux system has an RPM database
that stores information about all the RPM packages installed on
the system. This information includes the version of the
package, which files were installed with the package, a brief
description of the package, the installation date, and more.
Red Hat Network option to deliver the RPM packages based on
the Errata Alert list to a client system without user intervention.
If this feature is selected, packages are delivered through the
Red Hat Network Daemon
) that periodically polls Red Hat
rhnsd
) that collects
rhn_register
, establishes a connection with the Red
) that allows users to
up2date
running on the client system.
System Profile