The Up2Date --Configure Option - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - CLIENT Configuration Manual

rpm -Uvh\ http://your-satellite.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-
cert-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
4. Register the system with your RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. The command for this
step could look something like:
rhnreg_ks --activationkey mykey --serverUrl https://your-satellite.com/
XMLRPC
Alternatively, most of the above steps can be combined in a shell script that includes the following
lines:
wget -0 - http://your-satellite-DQDN/pub/bootstrap.sh | bash \ &&
rhnreg_ks --activation-key my_key --serverUrl \ https://your-satellite-
FQDN/XMLRPC
The bootstrap script, generated at installation and available for both RHN Satellite Server and RHN
Proxy Server, is such a script. The script and the RHN Bootstrap that generates it are discussed in
Chapter 5, Using RHN
detail in
Warning
Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and versions of Red Hat Linux prior to 8.0
may experience problems using Activation Keys to migrate SSL certificate settings from
rhn_register to up2date. Therefore, the SSL certificate information on those systems
must be set manually. All other settings, such as the server URL, transfer properly.

2.2.2. The up2date --configure Option

The Red Hat Update Agent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 provides an interface for configuring
various settings. For full listings of these settings, refer to the up2date manual page (man up2date
at a command line).
To reconfigure the Red Hat Update Agent, issue the following command as root:
up2date --configure
You are presented with a dialog box offering various settings that may be reconfigured. In the General
tab, under Select a Red Hat Network Server to use replace the default value with the
fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the RHN Satellite Server or RHN Proxy Server, such as
https://your_proxy_or_sat.your_domain.com/XMLRPC. Retain the /XMLRPC at the end.
When finished, click OK.
Bootstrap.
The up2date --configure Option
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