rPath Appliance Platform/Update Service:Add Appliance Entitlements

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The Update Service appliance handles two types of entitlements: an entitlement key for the appliance itself, and an administrative entitlement used by rPath™ Appliance Platform Entitlement Service to create and revoke entitlements for access to the mirrored repository contents.

Entitlement Key for the Appliance

The Update Service appliance requires an entitlement provided by rPath as part of the Update Service appliance purchase.

Use the Manage Entitlements option in the rPath™ Appliance Platform Agent on the appliance to enter this entitlement. This allows your Update Service to access updates published by rPath™.

Administrative Entitlement

The Update Service repository may include contents that require an entitlement from distributed software appliances. An entitlement authenticates these appliances and determines what software in the repository are available to them. These entitlements are created and managed on an rPath Appliance Platform Entitlement Service appliance.

If the Entitlement Service is part of the appliance distribution plan, the Update Service appliance should provide an administrative entitlement to the Entitlement Service appliance. The administrative entitlement gives the Entitlement Service appliance access to push its entitlements to the Update Service appliance, avoiding the need for the Update Service administrators to manually maintain these entitlements.

Use the following procedure to generate an entitlement from the Update Service appliance for use by the Entitlement Service:

1. Log in to rPath Appliance Platform Agent on the Update Service appliance as an administrative user.
2. Click Manage Administrative Entitlement from the menu at the left.
3. Click Generate to generate an administrative entitlement key.
4. Click OK to save the administrative entitlement key.

Update Service administrators must provide the administrative entitlement, entitlement class, and any related information to Entitlement Service users. Entitlement Service users must use this information on the Entitlement Service appliance when creating a new service for the Update Service appliance.

In a recovery or migration configuration, meaning that an administrative entitlement key was already generated by the Update Service appliance, copy the previously generated key from the Entitlement Service appliance instead of generating a new key. Click OK to save this copied value as the administrative entitlement key.