ABBREVIATIONS

1. SLES : SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

2. RBAC : Role Based Access Control.
3. PXE : Pre-boot Execution Environment.
4. DHCP : Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
5. RDP: Remote Desktop Protocol.
6. HTTP : Hypertext Transfer Protocol
7. HTTPS : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure.
8. TCP : Transmission Control Protocol.
9. FQDN : Fully Qualified Domain Name.
10. HDD : Hard Disk Drive.
11. NIC : Network Interface Controller.
12. SCSI : Small Computer System Interface.
13. ESX : VMware product, bare metal embedded hypervisor used as a virtualization platform.
14. VMXNET : Network interface adapter from VMware team. It is used in virtual machines
running on ESX hosts.
15. SSL : Secure Sockets Layer.
16. RHEL : Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
17. URL : Uniform Resource Locator.
18. osad - Open Source Architecture Daemon.
19. Rhn- red hat network.
20. YUM – yellowdog updater modified.
 Definations:

Channels:
It is nothing but a list of software packages. These are of two types
1. Base channel: it is a list of software packages which is based on a specific architecture or red hat
release.
2. Child channel: it is a list of channel which is associated with base channel which may contain
extra packages.
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Organization Administrator:
Is the one who has the highest level of control over the organisation’s account. These members only
has the power to add or remove the other users, system and system groups to the organization. The red hat
network organization must have atleast 1 organization administrator.

Channel Administrator:
Is the one who has the full access to the channel management capabilities . thay are capable of creating
cloning and deleting channels. It is the role assigned by the organization administrator .

Certificate Authority:
it distributes digital signature to the users for encrypted authentication and communication which is a
part of public key infrastructure.

Red Hat Update Agent:

It is client application which allows users to retrieve and install new and updated packages for the host.

Traceback:
It is a detailed error message used for troubleshooting the red hat satellite. The main function of
traceback is that when a critical error occurs it mails the users or individuals in the Red Hat Satellite
configuration file.

Software channel:
Software channels are the channels which are subscribed by to Spacewalk to obtain software packages
and errata. It may have number of child channels which provide additional packages.
Are subscribed to by Spacewalk client systems to obtain software packages and errata. A base or parent
channel provides packages for a specific Oracle Linux release and architecture. This channel can have a
number of child channels that provide additional packages.

Entitlement:
it is being enabled so as to provide additional functionality which is being supported by the
Spacewalk. With Spacewalk 2.6 many entitlements were removed the only which was supported was
virtualization entitlement, which can install the additional packages on the target host so as to manage
virtual guests on the host.

System group:
On the multiple client system it enables to perform system management operations which are
oragnised into groups. However , client system can be a member of more than 1 group. But the members
of the groups must be from the same Oracle Linux release, system architecture and a kickstart profile.
Organization:
The main function is to provide the way to logically delegate system management responsibilities and
allocate the entitlements. It provide a way to segment the Spacewalk implementation. We can establish
management entities which corresponds to the different administrative groups by creating or defining
multiple organization.

YUM:
YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater modified.YUM is a default package management in
RHEL/CentOS linux. It is used to search install, update and remove necessary rpm files from system. It
uses the repository to manage rpm files, where repository is collection of rpm files. As YUM depends on
repository, there must be atleast one working repository before it can be used.YUM can automatically
resolve software dependencies and based on system hardware it can automatically select appropriate
versions of RPM packages from repository.

Rhn-client-tools:
It is package with collection of tools and libraries for managing the client system.
Such as:
rhn check: it polls the spacewalk server and receives queued actions of the system and process them and
return the results to the spacewalk .
rhn-pro_le-sync: it refreshes the data stored fornthe system.
rhn register: it is a client program which registers system to the spacewalk.

Rhnlib:
It is a collection of python modules which are used by the Spacewalk. It is nothing but the base
package for all client packages used to provide a secured communication between server and client.

System _listerrata: it lists the errata that are available for specified system.

Erratadetails: it displays additional information about a given erratum.

System_applyerrata: it applies errata multiple systems within a system group at the same time.

Taskomatic:
It is a type of deamon which perform long running tasks which are running asynchronously such as
sending out email notification or cleaning up the session table for the new errata.

Rhnsd:
It is nothing but a query daemon which will query the spacewalk server by the rhn check tool where
scheduled action takes place. It is written in C language and hence it is not architecture independent like
other tools in the client.

Osad :
It provides OSA daemon agent. Where the commands received by the agent from spacewalk server
are instantly executed over jabber protocol.

Kickstart:
An automatic system installation configuration which uses answer files while installation process is
termed as kickstart.

Errata:
It is nothing but an information about packages having security bug fix or enhancemwnt updates.
It also helps to detect the issues which are not resolved even in the later versions of the packages.

EPEL:
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) is a fedora group where high quality set of additional
packages are being created, maintained and managed including RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux(OL)
Etc. it uses much of the same infrastructure as fedora.

Cobbler:
It is a linux provisioning server which is used to manage and facilitate the system installation of
multiple OS using different services from a central point. It is also able to manage complex networks such
as bridging on bonded Ethernet link etc.

Repository:
It is used in provisioning packages for the software channels. Usually it is being used by the
Spacewalk for provisioning packages for the software channel. Atleast one repository must be associated
with each channel to obtain the upstream packages else the channel attempts to pull the packages from
multiple sources.

Activation key:
It is one type of tag which is being associated with server configuration. While registering client with
the spacewalk server one needs to specify the activation key to select the characteristics which are bound
to that key. It can also be used to trigger Spacewalk to install specific packages and deploy the specialized
configuration after registration.