Activating The Satellite - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 3.7 Installation Manual

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Chapter 5. Entitlements

Option

--systemid=/PATH/TO/SYSTEMID

--no-ssl

Table 5-1. RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate Options

To use these options, insert the option and the appropriate value, if needed, after the

rhn-satellite-activate

5.3.2. Activating the Satellite

You should use the options in Table 5-1 to accomplish the following tasks in this order:

1. Validate the RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate's sanity (or usefulness).

2. Activate the Satellite locally by inserting the RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate into the local

database.

3. Activate the Satellite remotely by inserting the RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate into the central

RHN (remote) database. This is typically accomplished during local activation but may require

a second step if you chose the

Here are some examples depicting use of the tool and these options.

To validate an RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate's sanity only:

rhn-satellite-activate --sanity-only --rhn-cert=/path/to/demo.xml

To validate an RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate and populate the local database:

rhn-satellite-activate --disconnected --rhn-cert=/path/to/demo.xml

To validate an RHN Entitlement Certiﬁcate and populate both the local and the RHN database:

rhn-satellite-activate --rhn-cert=/path/to/demo.xml

Once you run this ﬁnal command, the Satellite is running and able to serve packages locally and

synchronize with the central RHN Servers. Refer to Chapter 6 Importing and Synchronizing.

Description

For testing only - Provides an alternative system ID

by path and ﬁle. The system default is used if not

speciﬁed.

For testing only - Disable SSL.

command. Refer to Section 5.3.2 Activating the Satellite.

--disconnected

option.

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