Red Hat Network is an Internet solution for managing a Red Hat Linux system or a network of
Red Hat Linux systems. All Security Alerts, Bug Fix Alerts, and Enhancement
Alerts (collective known as Errata Alerts) can be downloaded directly from
Red Hat using the Red Hat Update Agent standalone application or
through a Web browser at http://www.redhat.com/network/.
After you register a system with Red Hat Network, your System Profile is used to
deliver software packages, as soon as they are released by Red Hat, to
you. Red Hat Network only informs you about Errata Alerts that are relevant to your
registered system. The status of your system can be viewed through the
Red Hat Update Agent or at http://www.redhat.com/network/.
Everyone receives a free Red Hat Network Software Manager subscription for one
system. Additional subscriptions are $19.95/month for each system. Red Hat
is offering a special introductory $9.95/month rate for systems subscribed
before April 6, 2001.
If you have more than one system registered with Red Hat Network, you can view them
all from one Web interface as shown in Figure 19-1. You
can download all the packages for all your registered systems at the same
time. After downloading all the packages, you can then update them on the
individual systems in your network group.
For more information about Red Hat Network, read the Red Hat Network User Reference
Guide available at http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/.
