Hardware Requirements; Disk Space Requirements - Red Hat NETWORK PROXY 5.3.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 2. Requirements
• Access to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for the installed version of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. This channel includes the spacewalk-proxy-installer package that contains the
configure-proxy.sh installation program required to install RHN Proxy Server.
• All rhncfg* packages installed on the Proxy (from the RHN Tools channel).
• Either the rhns-certs-tools package installed on the Proxy (from the RHN Tools channel) for
RHN Hosted users, or the secure sockets layer (SSL) CA certificate password used to generate the
parent server certificate for RHN Satellite Server users.
• Configuration of the system to accept remote commands and configuration management through
Red Hat Network if using the deprecated Web UI installation method. Refer to
Proxy Server Installation Process"

2.2. Hardware Requirements

The following hardware configuration is required for the RHN Proxy Server:
• A Pentium IV Processor or equivalent
• 512 MB of memory
• At least 5 GB storage for base install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• 25+ GB storage per distribution/channel
The load on the Apache Web server is directly related to the frequency with which client systems
connect to the Proxy. If you reduce the default interval of four hours (or 240 minutes) as set in the /
etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd configuration file of the client systems, you will increase the load on
this component significantly.
Note
RHN Proxy Server does not support kickstart provisioning on multi-homed network
topologies. Kickstarts will not function properly on a Proxy server that has more than
one network interface.

2.3. Disk Space Requirements

The caching mechanism used by RHN Proxy Server is the Squid HTTP proxy, which saves significant
bandwidth for the clients. It should have a reasonable amount of space available. The cached
packages are stored in /var/spool/squid. The required free space allotment is 6 GB storage per
distribution/channel.
If the RHN Proxy Server is configured to distribute custom, or local packages, make sure that the
/var mount point on the system storing local packages has sufficient disk space to hold all of the
custom packages, which are stored in /var/spool/rhn-proxy. The required disk space for local
packages depends on the number of custom packages served.
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