Additional Requirements - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Installation Manual

• CREATE SYNONYM
• CREATE TABLE
• CREATE VIEW
• CREATE PROCEDURE
• CREATE TRIGGER
• CREATE TYPE
• CREATE SESSION
Additional database requirements include:
• Security Identifier (SID)
• Listener Port
• Username
• UTF-8 character set
Two additional suggested recommendation for user's default tablespace include:
• Uniform Extent Size
• Auto Segment Space Management
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 and entirely up to the
customer.

2.4. Additional Requirements

The following additional requirements must be met before the RHN Satellite installation:
• Full Access
Client systems need full network access to the RHN Satellite solution's services and ports.
•
Firewall Rules
RHN strongly recommends firewalling the RHN Satellite solution from the Internet. However, various
TCP ports must be opened on the Satellite, depending on your implementation of RHN Satellite:
Port
80
Direction
Outbound
Additional Requirements
Reason
Satellite uses this port to reach
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rhn.redhat.com xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com
,
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