Red Hat NETWORK 3.1 - PROVISIONING Reference Manual

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Chapter 4. Red Hat Network Website 59preferences may also be applied to systems individually through the Properties subtab of theSystem Details page. Refer to Section 4.4.2.6 System Details for instructions.• Receive Notifications of Updates/Errata — This setting keeps you abreast of all advisoriespertaining to your systems. Anytime an update is produced and released for a system underyour supervision, a notification is sent via email.• Include system in Daily Summary — This setting includes the selected systems in a dailysummary of system events. (By default, all Management and Provisioning systems are in-cluded in the summary.) These are actions affecting packages, such as scheduled Errata Up-dates, and system reboots or failures to check in. In addition to including the systems here, youmust choose to receive email notifications in the Your Preferences page of the Your RHNcategory. Refer to Section 4.3.2 Your Preferences for instructions. Note that RHN will sendthese summaries only to verified email addresses.• Automatic application of relevant errata — This setting allows you have all Errata Updatesautomatically applied to systems. This means packages associated with Errata will be updatedwithout any user intervention. Customers should note that Red Hat does not recommend theuse of the auto-update feature for production systems because conflicts between packages andenvironments can cause system failures. The Red Hat Network Daemon must be enabled onthe systems for this feature to work.4.4.5. System EntitlementsTo use all of the features of RHN, your systems must be entitled — subscribed to an RHN servicelevel. Use the System Entitlements page to configure which systems are entitled to which serviceofferings. There are three primary types of entitlements:• Update — should be used to manage a single Red Hat Linux system. It includes Errata Alerts,Scheduled Errata Updates, Package Installation, and the Red Hat Update Agent.• Management — should be used to manage multiple systems with multiple system administrators.In addition to the features of the Update offering, it includes system group management, user man-agement, and the System Set Manager interface to quickly perform actions on multiple systems.• Provisioning — offers the highest level of functionality. It should be used to provision multiple sys-tems that will need to be re-installed and reconfigured regularly. The Provisioning offering providestools for kickstarting machines, managing their configuration files, conducting snapshot rollbacks,and inputting searchable custom system information, as well as all of the functionality included inthe Management service level.The System Entitlements page allows you to view and promote the entitlements for your registeredsystems. Only increases in entitlement levels are allowed. Systems cannot be re-entitled to a lowerentitlement level. For instance, a system entitled to the Update service level can be promoted to theManagement level, but this action cannot be reversed.To change an individual entitlement, select the entitlement from the system’s pulldown menu andclick the Update Entitlements button on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. Click the name ofa system to see details about it. If no drop-down menu exists for your Update-level system, you mayneed to purchase a Management entitlement. Do this through the Buy Now page under Your RHN.