The Red Hat Network website enables users to 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 the categories, pages, and tabs within the website and explain how to use them.
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:
4.1.1. 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 — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) View a summary of your systems or system groups showing how many Errata Alerts each system has and which systems are entitled.
Systems — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) Select and view subsets of your systems by specific criteria, such as Virtual Systems, Unentitled, Recently Registered, Proxy, and Inactive.
System Groups — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) List your system groups. Create additional groups.
System Set Manager — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) 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 — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) Quickly search all of your systems by specific criteria, such as name, hardware, devices, system info, networking, packages, and location.
Activation Keys — (Management or Provisioning entitlement required) 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 — (Provisioning entitlement required) View system profiles used to provision systems.
Custom System Info — (Provisioning entitlement required) Create and edit system information keys containing completely customizable values that can be assigned while provisioning systems.
Kickstart — (Provisioning entitlement required) 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 — (Provisioning entitlement required) 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 — (Provisioning entitlement required) View and manage users for your organization.
Monitoring — (Monitoring entitlement required) Run probes and receive notifications regarding systems.
Status — (Monitoring entitlement required) View probes by state.
Notification — (Monitoring entitlement required) View contact methods established for your organization.
Probe Suites — (Monitoring entitlement required) Manage your monitoring infrastructure using suites of monitoring probes that apply to one or more assigned systems.
Scout Config Push — (Monitoring entitlement required) 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.
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.
4.1.2. 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 4.5.2.2, “Errata Details” for more information.
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 Search 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
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.
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 Clear button deselects all systems, while clicking the Manage 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
Update List 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
Section 4.4.4, “System Set Manager ” for details.
The information within most categories is presented as lists. These lists have some common features for navigation. For instance, you can navigate through virtually all lists by clicking the back and next arrows above and below the right side of the table. Some lists also offer the ability to retrieve items alphabetically by clicking the letters above the table.
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