[Spacewalk-list] register systems

[Jesus Rodriguez]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:45:46AM -0500, m.roth2006 at rcn.com wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:34:11 -0800
> >From: Mike McCune <mmccune at redhat.com>  
> >
> >Steve Vargo wrote:
> >> So does that mean that this link is just a link to the documentation 
> >> (which is not included with spacewalk)
> >> 
> >> https://spacewalk.company.com/rhn/help/client-config/en/index.jsp
> >> 
> >> and doesn't actually give you the ability to register client via the web 
> >> gui?
> >
> >Correct.  The only way in Spacewalk (or RHN Satellite) to register a 
> >client is through the use of rhn-register or rhnreg_ks from the client's 
> >CLI.  That page basically tells you this fact.
> 
> Dunno. I, personally, would never have released it that way - I'd have dynamically not shown anything that was not applicable to the version.

The Satellite product has the working link. For more information
check out this link:

http://www.redhat.com/red_hat_network/

> 
> However, I'm still stuck where I was, which is that I have a registered system, but no way to subscribe it to a channel. I have two channels, with children, but when I got to systems->click on my system->change subscriptions, and it says it will give me a list of channels, the list contains exactly one entry: (none, disable service).
> 
> What do I have to do to get the system subscribed, and why is this list not filled in?


Click on the system overview page, find your system in the list, click it
to see the details, then click on Alter Subscriptions.

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