Summary Of Steps - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 Installation Manual

1.5. Summary of Steps

Implementing a fully functional RHN Satellite Server requires more than installing software and a
database. Client systems must be configured to use the Satellite. Custom packages and channels
should be created for optimal use. Since these tasks extend beyond the basic installation, they are
covered in detail in other guides, as well as this RHN Satellite Server Installation Guide. For a full list
of the necessary technical documents, refer to
For this reason, this section seeks to provide a definitive list of all required and recommended steps,
from evaluation through custom package deployment. They should take place in roughly this order:
1. After an evaluation, you contact your Red Hat sales representative to purchase RHN Satellite
Server.
2. Your Red Hat contact sends you an RHN Entitlement Certificate via email.
3. Your Red Hat contact creates a Satellite-entitled account on the RHN website and sends you the
login information.
4. Log into the RHN website (rhn.redhat.com) and download the distribution ISOs for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and RHN Satellite Server 5.2.0. These can
be found within the Downloads tab of the respective Channel Details pages. Refer to the RHN
Reference Guide for instructions.
5. While still logged into the RHN website, download the Channel Content ISOs to be served by your
Satellite, also available through the Downloads tab of your Satellite's Channel Details page.
These Channel Content ISOs differ from the distribution ISOs previously mentioned in that they
contain metadata necessary for parsing and serving packages by Satellite.
6. If installing a Stand-Alone Database, prepare your database instance using the formula provided in
Chapter 2, Requirements.
7. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and then RHN Satellite Server 5.2.0 on the Satellite machine.
8. Create the first user account on the Satellite by opening the Satellite's hostname in a Web browser
and clicking Create Account. This will be the Satellite Administrator's (also referred to as the
Organization Administrator) account.
9. Use the RHN Satellite Synchronization Tool to import the channels and associated packages into
the Satellite.
10. R egister a representative machine for each distribution type, or channel (such as Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 or 5), to the Satellite.
11.Copy (using SCP) the rhn_register and up2date configuration files from the /etc/
sysconfig/rhn/ directory of each machine individually to the /pub/ directory on the Satellite.
The rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-*.noarch.rpm will already be there.
12. D ownload and install from the Satellite the configuration files and rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-
*.noarch.rpm on the remaining client systems of the same distribution type. Repeat this and the
previous step until all distribution types are complete.
13. T hrough the Satellite's website, create an Activation Key for each distribution aligned to the
appropriate base channel. At this point, system groups and child channels may also be predefined.
Chapter 2, Requirements.
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