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P
Package
Probe
Probe State
Probe Suite
Provisioning
R
Registered System
Red Hat Network Daemon
Red Hat Network
Registration Client
Red Hat Update Agent
RPM
RPM Database
RPM Update
RHN organization must have at least one member of the Satellite
Administrator group.
All software in Red Hat Enterprise Linux is divided into software
packages. Software updates are released in the form of RPM
packages that can be installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
A set of criteria that is either a template or a set of values assigned to
a system that is used to measure the performance of a system.
The measure of a probe's adherence to its defined criteria. 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 (rhnsd) that periodically polls Red Hat
Network for scheduled actions.
The RHN client application (rhn_register) that collects information
about the client system, creates a
Certificate
, establishes a connection with the Red Hat Network
servers, and registers the system with Red Hat Network.
The RHN client application (up2date) that allows users to 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
Network Daemon
running on the client system.
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