Installation; Base Install; Rhn Proxy Server Installation Process - Red Hat NETWORK PROXY 5.3.0 Installation Manual

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Chapter 4.

Installation

This chapter describes the initial installation of the RHN Proxy Server. It presumes the prerequisites

Chapter 2, Requirements

listed in

RHN Proxy Server, contact your Red Hat representative for assistance.

The RHN Proxy Server is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.

Therefore, the first phase is to install the base operating system, either from disc, ISO image, or

kickstart. During and after operating system installation, make sure you:

• Allocate sufficient space to the partition that will be used to store packages, according to the

hardware requirements set forth earlier. The default location for cached Red Hat packages is /var/

spool/squid, while custom packages are located in /var/spool/rhn-proxy.

Note

The installation program automatically calcutes the available space on the partition

where /var/spool/squid is mounted and allocates up to 60 percent of the free

space for RHN Proxy Server use.

• Install the packages required by RHN Proxy Server.

Note

You must install only the base packages, as others will cause the RHN Proxy Server

installation to fail.

Section 2.1, "Software Requirements"

Refer to

needed for each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• Enable Network Time Protocol (NTP) on the Proxy and select the appropriate time zone. All client

systems should already be running the ntpd daemon and be set to the correct time zone.

• Disable the ipchains and iptables services after installation.

The following instructions describe the RHN Proxy Server installation process:

1. Register the newly-installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux system with Red Hat Network (either the

central RHN Servers or your RHN Satellite Server) using the organizational account containing the

RHN Proxy Server entitlement with the command: rhn_register.

2. To perform an installation, type the following command:

configure-proxy.sh

have been met. However, if you are upgrading to a newer version of

for the method to obtain the correct package group

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