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Chapter 6. Red Hat Network Website
Notifications
Indicates the the notification options for this system. You can choose whether you wish to receive
email notifying you of available errata updates for this system. In addition, you may choose to
include Management-entitled systems in the daily summary email.
Auto Errata Update
Indicates whether this system is configured to accept updates automatically.
Description
This information is automatically generated at registration. You can edit this to include any
information you wish.
Location
If entered, this field displays the physical address of the system.
The final link on the page is Edit these properties. Clicking this link opens the System Details
Properties subtab. On this page, edit any text you choose, then click the Update Properties button to
confirm.
6.4.2.9.1.2. System Details
This subtab allows you to alter the following basic properties of your system:
Profile Name
By default, this is the hostname of the system. You can however alter the profile name to anything
that allows you to distinguish this profile from others.
Base Entitlement
Select a base channel for the system from the available base entitlements.
Add-on entitlements
If available, apply a Monitoring or Provisioning entitlement to the system.
Notifications
Toggle whether notifications about this system are sent and whether this system is included in
the daily summary. (By default, all Management and Provisioning systems are included in the
summary.) This setting keeps you abreast of all advisories pertaining to the system. Anytime an
update is produced and released for the system, a notification is sent via email.
The daily summary reports system events that affect packages, such as scheduled Errata
Updates, system reboots, or failures to check in. In addition to including the system here, you must
choose to receive email notification sin the Your Preferences page of the Your RHN category.
Auto-errata update
If this box is checked, available errata are automatically applied to the system when it checks in.
This action takes place without user intervention. Customers should note that Red Hat does not
recommend the use of the auto-update feature for production systems because conflicts between
packages and environments can cause system failures. The Red Hat Network Daemon must be
enabled on the system for this feature to work.
Description
By default, this text box records the operating system, release, and architecture of the system
when it first registers. You may edit this information to include anything you like.
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