Installation guide

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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Audience
2. Document Conventions
2.1. Typographic Conventions
2.2. Pull-quote Conventions
2.3. Notes and Warnings
3. Getting Help and Giving Feedback
3.1. Do You Need Help?
3.2. We Need Feedback!
Chapter 1. Red Hat Satellite Informat ion
1.1. Command Line Configuration Management T ools
1.1.1. Red Hat Network Actions Control
1.1.1.1. General command line options
1.1.2. Red Hat Network Configuration Client
1.1.2.1. Listing Config Files
1.1.2.2. Getting a Config File
1.1.2.3. Viewing Config Channels
1.1.2.4. Differentiating between Config Files
1.1.2.5. Verifying Config Files
1.1.3. Red Hat Network Configuration Manager
1.1.3.1. Creating a Config Channel
1.1.3.2. Adding Files to a Config Channel
1.1.3.3. Differentiating between Latest Config Files
1.1.3.4. Differentiating between Various Versions
1.1.3.5. Downloading All Files in a Channel
1.1.3.6. Getting the Contents of a File
1.1.3.7. Listing All Files in a Channel
1.1.3.8. Listing All Config Channels
1.1.3.9. Removing a File from a Channel
1.1.3.10. Deleting a Config Channel
1.1.3.11. Determining the Number of File Revisions
1.1.3.12. Updating a File in a Channel
1.1.3.13. Uploading Multiple Files at Once
1.2. Monitoring
1.2.1. Prerequisites
1.2.2. Configuring the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon (rhnmd)
1.2.2.1. Installing the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon
1.2.2.2. Configuring SSH
1.2.2.3. Installing the SSH key
1.2.3. Configuring the mysql package for probes
1.2.4. Enabling Notifications
1.2.4.1. Creating Notification Methods
1.2.4.2. Receiving Notifications
1.2.4.3. Redirecting Notifications
1.2.4.4. Deleting Notification Methods
1.2.5. About Probes
1.2.5.1. Managing Probes
1.2.5.2. Establishing Thresholds
1.2.5.3. Monitoring the Satellite Server
1.2.6. Monitoring
1.2.6.1. Probe Status
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