Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network

[Tim Nelson]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2004 wbmccarty@gmail.com wrote:

> When deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts via cfengine, how do
> folks handle the Red Hat Network host registration and entitlement
> process, which seem to be designed for only interactive use? For
> instance, can the up2date-uuid and systemid files in /etc/sysconfig/rhn
> be generated in batch, uploaded to a repository, and subsequently
> downloaded to provision a system?

	I admit to not knowing the answers to this question, but I'm 
working with RHEL and up2date.

	In our setup, the host comes with that stuff already set up 
(through our hosting provider).  You could interact with Redhat about it 
(I think our hosting provider has some special proxying deal with Redhat; 
maybe you could work something out).  You could also investigate 
NRH-up2date, but it wouldn't be a Redhat-supported config, so that 
probably won't do what you want, but the documentation might give you some 
ideas.

	I've also developed Arpmats (http://arpmats.sourceforge.net/) to 
help cfengine and up2date (or, theoretically, any other Repository 
Manager) work together.

        Let me know what you find out about the information above.

        Thanks,

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