Installation guide

Chapter 1. Red Hat Satellite Information
This section covers various topics on Red Hat Satellite advanced configuration.
1.1. Command Line Configuration Management Tools
In addition to the options provided in the Red Hat Satellite website, there are two command line tools for
managing a system's configuration files: the Red Hat Network Configuration Client and the Red
Hat Network Configuration Manager. There is a complementary Red Hat Network Actions
Control tool that is used to enable and disable configuration management on client systems. If you do
not yet have these these tools installed, they can be found within the Red Hat Network T ools child
channel for your operating system.
Tip
Whenever a configuration file is deployed via the website, a backup of the previous file including
its full path is made in the /var/lib/rhncfg/backups/ directory on the affected system. The
backup retains its filename but has a .rhn-cfg-backup extension appended.
1.1.1. Red Hat Network Actions Control
The Red Hat Network Actions Cont rol (rhn-actions-control) application is used to enable and
disable configuration management of a system. Client systems cannot be managed in this fashion by
default. T his tool allows System Administrators to enable or disable specific modes of allowable actions
such as: deploying a configuration file onto the system, uploading a file from the system, using diff to find
out what is currently managed on a system and what is available, or allowing running arbitrary remote
commands. These various modes are enabled/disabled by placing/removing files and directories in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/ directory. Due to the default permissions on the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/ directory, Red Hat Network Actions Control have to be run by someone with
root access.
1.1.1.1. General command line options
There is a m an page available, as there are for most command line tools. Simply decide what Red Hat
Network scheduled actions should be enabled for use by system administrators. These options enable
the various scheduled action modes:
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