Additional Requirements - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 Installation Manual

Chapter 2. Requirements
• CREATE TYPE
• CREATE SESSION
Additional database requirements include:
• Security Identifier (SID)
• Listener Port
• Username
• Uniform Extent Size
• Auto Segment Space Management
• UTF-8 character set
Note
Ensure that the NLS/charset setting is set to "UTF8"' when using an external database,
not 'AL32UTF8' or other charsets. Using other charsets may lead to problems later.
The disk layout on the database machine is independent of the RHN Satellite Server and entirely up to
the customer.

2.4. Additional Requirements

The following additional requirements must be met before the RHN Satellite Server installation:
• Full Access
Client systems need full network access to the RHN Satellite Server solution's services and ports.
•
Firewall Rules
RHN strongly recommends firewalling the RHN Satellite Server solution from the Internet. However,
various TCP ports must be opened on the Satellite, depending on your implementation of RHN
Satellite Server:
Port
80
80
443
443
10
Direction
Outbound
Inbound
Inbound
Outbound
Reason
Satellite uses this port to reach
1
rhn.redhat.com xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com
,
satellite.rhn.redhat.com
and
running in a disconnected mode for
Satellite)
WebUI and client requests come in via
either http or https
WebUI and client requests come in via
either http or https
rhn.redhat.com
To reach
xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com
2
3
(unless
4
,
5
and