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organization or its resources. Click Forward to continue.
4. Use the Create Your System Profile page to select a profile name for the system you are
registering. T he default profile name is the system's host name, but you can change it to any valid
profile name. You can also select whether to report hardware and package information to Red Hat
Network. It is recommended that you report this information because it allows Red Hat Network to
automatically subscribe your system to the base and child channels most appropriate to your
system. You can click View Hardware Profile or View Package Profile to inspect the
information that rhn_register uploads to Red Hat Network or Satellite in this step.
Note
This automatic registration does not automatically subscribe your system to optional child
channels, such as the Red Hat Network T ools channel. If you want to register a system
and automatically subscribe it to a set of channels, consider using a kickstart profile or
rhnreg_ks and activation keys.
5. Click Forward to display the Review System Subscription Details page, which displays
the base and child channel information to which your system has been subscribed. Review the
channels, and then click Forward to continue.
6. The Finish Setting Up Software Updates page indicates that you have successfully
registered a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system with Red Hat Network. A "package" icon appears in
the upper right corner of your desktop when updates are available. Click the icon to apply
available updates. Click Finish to exit the wizard.
Note
If you do not have any entitlements available for this system, this final page indicates that
the registration has failed. This does not mean that the system profile has not been stored
with Red Hat Network, only that you will not receive automatic updates without manual
intervention. You can always log in to the Red Hat Network or Satellite Web interface and
either purchase additional entitlements or get an entitlement from your Satellite
administrator. Click Exit software update setup to exit the wizard.
Reinstalling the System
If you have already registered the system and the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/system id file exists on the
system, use rhnreg_ks as well as activation keys to reregister the system without creating a duplicate
entry in Red Hat Satellite.
3.1.1. Command-line Version of rhn_register
There is a command-line version of rhn_register that allows you to register your system for access
to Red Hat Network or Red Hat Satellite without using a graphical desktop environment.
Type rhn_register on the command line to start the text-based version of rhn_register. If you
are in shell terminal window and want to use the text-based version, type rhn_register --nox to
prevent opening the graphical client.
The text-based version of rhn_register has the same configuration screens as the graphical
version. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move left, right, up, or down and to highlight selections.
Press the Spacebar key to select an option. Press the T ab key to move through different navigational
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