• A key may specify either zero or one base channel. If specified, it must be a custom base
channel. If not, the base channel corresponding to the system's Red Hat distribution is
chosen. For instance, you may not subscribe a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 system to the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 channel.
• A key may specify any number of child channels. For each child channel, subscription is
attempted. If the child channel matches the system's base channel, subscription succeeds. If
it does not, the subscription fails silently. Refer to
Section 6, “Channels”
for more information.
• Keys may be modified by any user with the role of Activation Key Administrator or Satellite
Administrator (or both). These permissions are set through the Users tab of the RHN website.
Refer to
Section 9, “Users —
”
for details.
• Systems registered by activation keys are tied to the organization account in which the key
was created, not the key itself. After registration, a key can be deleted safely without any
effect on the systems it was used to register.
6. Registering a System to an Organization
RHN Satellite Server now supports the Organizations feature, which allows administrators to
appropriate software and system entitlements across various organizations, as well as control
an organization's access to systems management. Systems can now be registered directly to
an organization.
To register a system to an organization on a satellite, you can use the username and password
of an account that is created within that organization. For example, if there is an organization
called Sales Team, with a username
salesadmin
and password
abc123
, using these
credentials assures that a system is registered to the proper organization.
For example:
rhnreg_ks --user=salesadmin --password=abc123
Important
The
--orgid
option (for RHEL 4 and 5) and the
--orgpassword
option (in RHEL
4) in the
rhnreg_ks
command are not related to the Organizations feature and
should not be used in the context of registering systems to organizations.
For more information about the Organizations feature, refer to
Section 11.1, “Satellite Tools #
Organizations”
.
Registering a System to an Organization
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