RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. Activation keys can be used to register, entitle, and subscribe
systems in a batch. Refer to the section "Activation Keys" in the RHN Satellite Server Reference Guide
for more information on activation keys.
Registering with an activation key has four basic steps:
1. Generate an Activation Key.
2. Import custom GPG keys.
3. Download and install the SSL Certificate RPM from the /pub/ directory of the RHN Proxy Server
or RHN Satellite Server. T he command for this step could look something like this:
rpm -Uvh http://your-satellite-FQDN/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-
1.noarch.rpm
4. Register the system with your RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. T he command for this
step could look something like:
rhnreg_ks --activationkey mykey --serverUrl https://your-satel li te-
FQDN/XM LRPC
Alternatively, most of the above steps can be combined in a shell script that includes the following lines
(note that this command has been split into multiple lines for print and PDF purposes but should be
typed as one line at a shell prompt).
wget -0 - http://your-satellite-FQDN/pub/bootstrap.sh | bash
&& rhnreg_ks --activation-key my_key --serverUrl
https://your-satellite-FQDN/XMLRPC
The bootstrap script, generated at installation and available for both RHN Satellite Server and RHN
Proxy Server, is such a script. T he script and the RHN Bootstrap that generates it are discussed in
detail in Chapter 5, Using RHN Bootstrap.
Warning
Systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and versions of Red Hat Linux prior to 8.0 may
experience problems using Activation Keys to migrate SSL certificate settings from
rhn_register to up2date. Therefore, the SSL certificate information on those systems must
be set manually. All other settings, such as the server URL, transfer properly.
2.2.3. The up2date --configure Option
The Red Hat Update Agent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 provides an interface for configuring
various settings. For full listings of these settings, refer to the up2date manual page (m an up2date at
a command line).
To reconfigure the Red Hat Update Agent, issue the following command as root:
up2date --configure
You are presented with a dialog box offering various settings that may be reconfigured. In the General
tab, under Select a Red Hat Network Server to use replace the default value with the fully
qualified domain name (FQDN) of the RHN Satellite Server or RHN Proxy Server, such as
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