Red Hat NETWORK BASIC - USER REFERENCE GUIDE 4.2 User Reference Manual

74 Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Registration ClientFigure 7-14. Registration Finished7.6. Entitling Your SystemNow that you have registered your system, it must be entitled before you can receive updated pack-ages. In other words, you must subscribe it to a service level offering. Everyone automatically receivesone free Demo entitlement after creating an account by registering a system for RHN or creating aredhat.com account.To entitle a system, go to http://rhn.redhat.com and login using the same username and password youjust used in the Red Hat Network Registration Client. On the left navigation bar, click Entitlementsunder the Your RHN category. The Entitlement Manager tells you how many entitlements you haveleft. If you have one or more left, check the checkbox under the Entitled column beside the name ofthe system that you just registered. Then click the Update Entitlements button at the bottom of thepage. The number of entitlements remaining will decrease, and your system is now ready to use theRed Hat Update Agent and RHN website. Refer to Chapter 2 Red Hat Update Agent and Chapter4 Red Hat Network Website for details on how to use them. If you do not have any entitlement slotsleft, enter the number you want to purchase and click the Buy Now! button to purchase additionalsubscriptions.7.7. Text Mode RHN Registration ClientIf you are not running the X Window System, the Red Hat Network Registration Client starts intext mode.You can force the Red Hat Network Registration Client to run in text mode with the command:rhn_register --noxThe screens for the text mode Red Hat Network Registration Client are almost identical to thescreens for the graphical Red Hat Network Registration Client. Some of the text in the text modeversion is more concise due to lack of space in the interface. However, there is an equal number of