Installation guide

# rhn_register

2.3. Using Activation Keys to Register Clients with Red Hat

Satellite

Red Hat recommends using activation keys for registering and configuring client systems that access

Red Hat Proxy or Red Hat Satellite. You can use activation keys to register, entitle, and subscribe

multiple systems in a single operation. See the relevant section in the Red Hat Satellite Getting Started

Guide for more information about activation keys.

Procedure 2.2. T o Use Activation Keys to Register a System with Red Hat Satellite:

1. Generate an activation key. (See "Using Activation Keys" in the Red Hat Satellite Getting Started

Guide.)

2. Import custom GPG keys.

3. Download and install the SSL Certificate RPM from the /pub/ directory of the Red Hat Proxy or

Red Hat Satellite. For example (update the URL to suit your environment):

# rpm -Uvh http://satell ite.example.com/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-1.0-

1.noarch.rpm

4. Register the system with the Red Hat Proxy or Red Hat Satellite:

# rhnreg_ks --activationkey mykey --serverUrl

https://satellite.example.com/XMLRPC

Alternatively, most of the above steps can be combined in a shell script that includes the following lines:

wget -0 - http://satellite.example.com/pub/bootstrap.sh | bash

&& rhnreg_ks --activation-key my_key --serverUrl

https://satellite.example.com/XMLRPC

Note

This command has been split into multiple lines for print and PDF purposes but should be typed

as one line at a shell prompt.

The bootstrap script, generated at installation and available for both Red Hat Satellite Server and

Red Hat Proxy Server, is such a script. The script and the Red Hat Network Bootstrap that generates it

are discussed in detail in the Getting Started Guide.

2.4. Updating the Configuration Files Manually

As an alternative to the GUI interface described in the previous section, users may also reconfigure the

Red Hat Update Agent by editing the application's configuration file.

To configure the Update Agent on client systems that connect to Red Hat Proxy or Satellite, edit the

values of the serverURL and noSSLServerURL settings in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

configuration file (as root). Replace the default Red Hat Network URL with the fully qualified domain name

(FQDN) of the Proxy or Satellite. For example:

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Client Configuration Guide