Registering Your Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for ULN Updates

This topic demonstrates how to register your Oracle Private Cloud Appliance for ULN patch updates.

Log in to the master management node.

Run the uln_register command. If the appliance is already registered with ULN, the uln_register command will fail. You can run uln_register -f to update the existing registration. 

# /usr/sbin/uln_register

Follow the instructions on the screens.

As an alternative to clicking on elements with your mouse, you can use the Tab and Alt+Tab keyboard keys to navigate between elements, and press the space bar to toggle a selection.

To go to the next screen, click the Next button, press the F12 key, or tab to the Next button and press the Enter key.

The first screen is the System Registration screen. After reading it, go to the next screen.

Figure showing the System Registration screen of ULN system registration.

On the second screen, log in to your ULN account. After entering your user name, password, and CSI, go to the next screen.

Figure showing the ULN account login screen of ULN system registration.

On the third screen, create the hardware profile for this appliance. Enter a descriptive name for the profile. The default profile name is the system host name.

Decide whether to include the information that the registration tool finds about the appliance. This information is shown on the screen. To exclude that information, select (highlight) the "Include the following information about hardware and network" field and then press the space bar to deselect that option. Go to the next screen.

Figure showing the hardware profile creation screen of ULN system registration.

On the select packages screen, select (highlight) the "Include RPM packages installed on this system in my System Profile" field and then press the space bar to deselect that option. Go to the next screen.

Figure showing the select packages screen to create the package profile for ULN system registration.

On the next screen, confirm that you want to use the information from the previous screens to create the system profile for this appliance. To confirm, select Next to register the appliance with ULN and go to the next screen.

Figure showing the send profile information confirmation screen of ULN system registration.

Rebootless kernel updates are not supported for channel updates. Select (highlight) the "Yes, I want to configure my system to access rebootless updates" field and then press the space bar to deselect that option. Click OK to go to the next screen.

Figure showing the configure rebootless updates screen of ULN system registration.

Read the Review Subscription screen, and click the OK button to finalize the registration and exit the ULN registration tool.

Figure showing the subscription review screen of ULN system registration.

The file /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid is created, which contains the ULN registration and configuration of the system.

The yum-rhn-plugin is enabled.

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