[rhn-users] Automated RHN Registration

[Michael Weber]

Ah!  (My vocal music prof told me that the English language is fine as long as you don't try to speak it, sing it, or communicate with it.)

Can you copy the contents of the /etc/sysconfig/rhn directory and paste it in to the new system?

It's still manual, but it saves the typing, and I bet you could script it into your kickstart file somewhere.

-Michael

>>> jrd154 at psu.edu 1/12/2006 9:05 AM >>>
Michael,

I guess my usage of the word image is not quite right.  Just a mental 
slip, but we actually reinstall Red Hat on the machines when we 
"reimage" them.  Since we have several machine types, this keeps us from 
having to keep multiple "images" for each type of machine.

So yes, when we rebuild the machines, up2date is getting reinstalled and 
  is being configured each time.

Jason

Michael Weber wrote:
> Good morning, Jason!
> 
> I have reinstalled a couple of machines from images and had little effort to make it happen.  All I did was run rhn_register on the new machine, enter my rhn info and it's done.
> 
> If I reimage from a backup, and the machine name doesn't change, I didn't even have to re-register.  RHN just picked up on the new machine and downloaded the appropriate updates.
> 
> Are you reconfiguring up2date every time?
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
>>>>jrd154 at psu.edu 1/10/2006 8:38 AM >>>
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> I manage about 80 machines that are in several student labs at my 
> university.  We of course keep them updated with the rhn automatic 
> update feature.  We do however have to reinstall our machine image on 
> the lab machines every so often, and having to register each one by hand 
> to RHN is a pain to say the least.  Has anyone come across or developed 
> a method to automatically register a machine with RHN?  I'd also like to 
> be able to remove an old profile of the machine at the same time I'm 
> creating a new profile with RHN, but that's not as needed.
> 
> Thanks!
> 




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