Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Website
You can use the Red Hat Network website to manage multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems simultaneously, including viewing Errata Alerts, applying Errata Updates, and installing packages. This chapter seeks to identify all of categories, pages, and tabs within the website and explain how to use them.
7.1. Navigation
The Top Navigation Bar is divided into tabs. Satellite Administrators see the following Top Navigation Bar. Note that only RHN Satellite customers see the Monitoring and Admin tabs.
The Left Navigation Bar is divided into pages. The links are context-sensitive and may vary slightly between RHN Satellite and non-Satellite web interfaces. The following is an example of the Left Navigation Bar for the Users tab.
Some pages have sub-tabs. These tabs offer an additional layer of granularity in performing tasks for systems or users. The following is a menu bar for all System Details sub-tabs. This system has Management and Provisioning entitlements, but not Monitoring:
Figure 7.3. Sub-Tabs — System Details
7.1.1. Entitlement Views
Keep in mind, since this guide covers all entitlement levels, some tabs, pages, and even whole categories described here may not be visible to you. For this reason, icons are used here to identify which functions are available to each entitlement level.
Icon | Entitlement |
---|---|
Management or higher | |
Provisioning | |
Monitoring |
If no icon follows a category, page, or tab label within this chapter, the area described is available to all Red Hat Network users. If an icon does follow, the associated entitlement is needed. Remember that Provisioning inherits all of the functions of Management.
If an icon precedes a paragraph, only the specific portion of the page or tab discussed afterward requires the indicated entitlement level. When a page or tab is associated with a particular entitlement level, all of its tabs and subtabs require at least the same entitlement level but may need a higher entitlement. Regardless, each tab is identified separately.
7.1.2. Categories and Pages
This section summarizes all of the categories and primary pages (those linked from the top and left navigation bars) within the RHN website. It does not list the many subpages, tabs and subtabs accessible from the left navigation bar and individual pages. Each area of the website is explained in detail later in this chapter:
- Overview — View and manage your primary account information and obtain help.
- Overview — Obtain a quick overview of your account. It notifies you if your systems need attention, provides a quick link to go directly to them, and displays the most recent Errata Alerts for your account.
- Your Account — Update your personal profile and addresses.
- Your Preferences — Indicate if you wish to receive email notifications about Errata Alerts for your systems, set how many items are displayed at one time for lists such as system lists and system group lists, set your time zone, and identify your contact options.
- Locale Preferences — Configure language, timezone, and other customizations for your particular locale.
- Subscription Management — Manage base and add-on system entitlements, such as Management, Provisioning, and Virtualization.
- Systems — Manage all of your systems (including virtual guest systems) here.
- Overview — — View a summary of your systems or system groups showing how many Errata Alerts each system has and which systems are entitled.
- Systems — Select and view subsets of your systems by specific criteria, such as Virtual Systems, Unentitled, Recently Registered, Proxy, and Inactive.
- System Groups — — List your system groups. Create additional groups.
- System Set Manager — — Perform various actions on collective sets of systems, including scheduling errata updates, package management, listing and creating new groups, and managing channel entitlements.
- Advanced Search — — Quickly search all of your systems by specific criteria, such as name, hardware, devices, system info, networking, packages, and location.
- Activation Keys — — Generate an activation key for an RHN-entitled system. This activation key can be used to grant a specified level of entitlement or group membership to a newly registered system with the
rhnreg_ks
command. - Stored Profiles — — View system profiles used to provision systems.
- Custom System Info — — Create and edit system information keys containing completely customizable values that can be assigned while provisioning systems.
- Kickstart — — Display and modify various aspects of kickstart profiles used in provisioning systems.
- Errata — View and manage Errata Alerts here.
- Errata — List Errata Alerts and download associated RPMs.
- Advanced Search — Search Errata Alerts based on specific criteria, such as synopsis, advisory type, and package name.
- Manage Errata — Manage the errata for an organization's channels.
- Clone Errata — Clone errata for an organization for ease of replication and distribution across an organization.
- Channels — View and manage the available RHN channels and the files they contain.
- Software Channels — View a list of all software channels and those applicable to your systems.
- Package Search — Search packages using all or some portion of the package name, description, or summary, with support for limiting searches to supported platforms.
- Manage Software Channels — — Create and edit channels used to deploy configuration files.
- Configuration — Keep track of and manage configuration channels, actions, and individual configuration files.
- Overview — A general dashboard view that shows a configuration summary
- Configuration Channels — List and create configuration channels from which any subscribed system can receive configuration files
- Configuration Files — List and create files from which systems receive configuration input
- Systems — List the systems that have RHN-managed configuration files.
- Schedule — Keep track of your scheduled actions.
- Pending Actions — List scheduled actions that have not been completed.
- Failed Actions — List scheduled actions that have failed.
- Completed Actions — List scheduled actions that have been completed. Completed actions can be archived at any time.
- Archived Actions — List completed actions that have been selected to archive.
- Users — — View and manage users for your organization.
- User List — — List users for your organization.
- Monitoring — — Run probes and receive notifications regarding systems.
- Status — — View probes by state.
- Notification — — View contact methods established for your organization.
- Probe Suites — — Manage your monitoring infrastructure using suites of monitoring probes that apply to one or more assigned systems.
- Scout Config Push — — Displays the status of your monitoring infrastructure.
- Admin (visible only to Satellite administrators) — List, create, and manage one or more Satellite organizations, from which the Satellite administrator can assign channel entitlements, create and assign administrators for each organization, and other tasks.
- Organizations — List and create new organizations
- Subscriptions — List and manage the software and system entitlements for all organizations across the Satellite.
- Users — List all users on the Satellite, across all organizations. Click individual usernames to change administrative privileges for the user.
Note
Users created for organization administration can only be configured by the organization administrator, not the Satellite administrator. - Satellite Configuration — Make general configuration changes to the Satellite, including Proxy settings, Certificate configuration, Bootstrap Script configuration, Organization changes, and Restart the Satellite Server.
- Task Engine Status — configures the daemon that runs on the Satellite server itself and performs routine operations, such as database cleanup, Errata mailings, and other tasks that are performed in the background.
7.1.3. Errata Alert Icons
Throughout Red Hat Network you will see three Errata Alert icons.
represents a Security Alert.
represents a Bug Fix Alert.
represents an Enhancement Alert.
In the Overview page, click on the Errata advisory to view details about the Erratum or click on the number of affected systems to see which are affected by the Errata Alert. Both links take you to tabs of the Errata Details page. Refer to Section 7.5.2.2, “Errata Details” for more information.
7.1.4. Quick Search
In addition to the Advanced Search functionality for Packages, Errata, Documentation, and Systems offered within some categories, RHN Satellite also offers a Quick Search tool near the the top of each page. To use it, select the search item (choose from Systems, Packages, Documentation, and Errata) and type a keyword to look for a name match. Click the button. Your results appear at the bottom of the page.
If you misspell a word during your search query, the Satellite search engine institutes approximate string (or fuzzy string) matching, giving you results that may be similar in spelling to your misspelled queries.
For example, if you want to search for a certain development system called
test-1.example.com
that is registered to the Satellite, but you misspell your query tset
, the test-1.example.com system still appears in the search results
Note
If you add a distribution or register a system to a Satellite, it may take several minutes for it to be indexed and appear in search results.
For advanced System searches, refer to Section 7.4.5, “Advanced Search —
”.
For advanced Errata searches, refer to Section 7.5.3, “Advanced Search”.
For advanced Package searches, refer to Section 7.6.2, “Package Search”.
For advanced Documentation searches, refer to Section 7.12.8, “Search”.
7.1.5. Systems Selected
Also near the top of the page is a tool for keeping track of the systems you have selected for use in the System Set Manager. It identifies the number of selected systems at all times and provides the means to work with them. Clicking the
button deselects all systems, while clicking the button launches the System Set Manager with your selected systems in place.
These systems can be selected in a number of ways. Only systems with at least a Management entitlement are eligible for selection. On all system and system group lists, a Select column exists for this purpose. Select the checkboxes next to the systems or groups and click the Section 7.4.4, “System Set Manager —
” for details.
button below the column. Each time, the Systems Selected tool at the top of the page changes to reflect the new number of systems ready for use in the System Set Manager. Refer to