Rhn Proxy Server Installation Process - Red Hat NETWORK PROXY SERVER 4.1.0 Installation Manual

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4.2. RHN Proxy Server Installation Process

The following instructions describe the RHN Proxy Server installation process:
1. Register the newly-installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS system with Red Hat Net-
work (either the central RHN Servers or your RHN Satellite Server) using the orga-
nizational account containing the RHN Proxy Server entitlement with the command:
up2date
--register
2. Grant the system a Provisioning entitlement. Visit the RHN Website (or the fully
qualified domain name of the Satellite serving the Proxy), login as the Organization
Administrator, and navigate to the Your RHN ⇒ Subscription Management page.
Check the box of system on which the RHN Proxy Server is to be installed, select
Provisioning from the drop-down box, and click the Add Entitlement button.
3. Ensure that the system is subscribed to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for its
base operating system by clicking the name of the system and navigating to the
System ⇒ System Details page. Under the Subscribed Channels section, check
the listed channels for the Tools channel. If not subscribed to this channel, click the
Alter Channel Subscriptions link, check the box next to the tools channel, and then
click the Change Subscriptions button to confirm your choice.
4. Install all of the
tails ⇒ Software ⇒ Packages ⇒ Install subtab. Next, search for
the Filter by Package Name text search box. In the resulting list, select all of the
packages and install them.
5. If you will be enabling secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption on the Proxy and con-
necting to the central RHN Servers, install the
the same Red Hat Network Tools channel and use the RHN SSL Maintenance Tool to
generate the tar file required later. Refer to the SSL Certificates chapter of the RHN
Client Configuration Guide for instructions.
If you will be enabling SSL encryption on the Proxy and connecting to an RHN
Satellite Server or another RHN Proxy Server with SSL, you will also need the CA
certificate password used for the parent system.
6. Log into the system through a terminal as root and run the
immediately initiate the scheduled package installation.
7. Once the packages have been installed, as confirmed through the System Details
⇒ Events tab, prepare the system to accept remote commands and configuration
management with the following command:
/usr/bin/rhn-actions-control --enable-all
8. Within the RHN website, navigate to the System Details ⇒ Details ⇒ Proxy sub-
tab.
.
packages by first navigating to the System ⇒ System De-
rhncfg
Chapter 4. Installation
rhns-certs-tools
rhn_check
using
rhncfg
package from
command to