2. The Web Management Interface

To activate your Mandriva Online account, access the Mandriva Online web administration interface by right-clicking on the Mandriva Online applet on the panel, and choose Online WebSite. Once you're on the website, provide your Mandriva Online email address and password.

[Note] Note

At this point, you can check out your mandriva account settings on the My Mandriva Web site.

2.1. Subscribing New Machines

Figure 10.4. Mandriva Online Hosts List

Mandriva Online Hosts List

2.2. Host Management

Once you activate a host you can access its management interface by clicking on the details icon.

Figure 10.5. Up-To-Date Mandriva Online Host

Up-To-Date Mandriva Online Host

The available actions differ slightly according to whether your machine's packages are up-to-date or not, but basically here are the actions you can perform:

Control email alerts

Change the mail-sending status to yes (by clicking on the link) to receive an email when updates are available.

Control automatic scheduled updates

Change the auto-update status to yes (by clicking on the link) to have updates for your machine automatically installed by the applet (see Section 3, “Mandriva Online Applet”) which regularly connects to the Internet to check for such updates.

Check current packages

Click on the See link by the Installed packages or Errata(s) label.

2.3. Scheduling Updates

You can update your machine manually from the applet (see Section 3, “Mandriva Online Applet”); from the Web interface, you can check which updates are available and choose which ones to install.

Figure 10.6. Outdated Mandriva Online Host

Outdated Mandriva Online Host

You must now select the packages to be updated. You can either schedule all packages to be updated, or choose them one by one by clicking on the See link in the Outdated packages field.

Figure 10.7. Select Packages to be Updated

Select Packages to be Updated

Click on the advisory link (of the MDKA-year:number or MDKSA-year:number forms) to obtain details about that update. Check the box for each package you want to be updated on your machine. When this is done, click on Schedule Packages.

Once updates are selected, they are automatically installed next time the applet connects to the Mandriva Online server, which occurs several times a day.