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Chapter 5. Updating your Red Hat Enterprise Linux system prior to the setup

Before you install RHUI, it is a good practice to secure your system by installing all the latest available updates.

Prerequisites

  • Ensure that the system is registered to Red Hat.
  • All the relevant repositories are enabled.

Procedure

  1. Apply any available operating system update to each of your nodes. For more information, see How do I apply package updates to my RHEL system?.

  2. If necessary, reboot the nodes. The command to check this is: needs-restarting -r

    Note

    This command is part of the yum-utils package, which must be installed on each system for the command to be available.

Note

The procedure above only applies to the initial setup, before RHUI is installed. For information on how to keep an existing installation of RHUI up to date, see Upgrading Red Hat Update Infrastructure.

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