Configuring The Slave Rhn Satellite Servers; Using Inter-Satellite Sync - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Installation Manual

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Chapter 6. Importing and Synchronizing

By default, no slave Satellites are specified to sync from the master server, so you must enter the

hostname of each slave Satellite server, separated by commas. For example:

allowed_iss_slaves=slave1.satellite.example.org,slave2.satellite.example.org

Once you finished configuring the rhn.conf file, restart the httpd service by issuing the following

command:

service httpd restart

6.4.3. Configuring the Slave RHN Satellite Servers

To configure RHN Satellite slave servers for Inter-Satellite Sync, ensure that you have the ORG-SSL

certificate from your master RHN Satellite server so you can securely transfer content. This can be

downloaded over http from the /pub/ directory of any Satellite. The file is called RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-

SSL-CERT, but can be renamed and placed anywhere on the slave Satellite, such as the /usr/

share/rhn/ directory.

For information about SSL configuration for use with RHN Satellite, refer to Chapter 3, "SSL

Infrastructure" in the RHN Satellite Client Configuration Guide

Once the SSL certificate is placed on the slave server, you can see the list of channels available

to sync from the master Satellite server by running the following command (replacing the

master.satellite.example.com with the hostname of the master Satellite server):

satellite-sync --iss-parent=master.satellite.example.com --ca-cert=/usr/

share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --list-channels

This command lists both Red Hat Network Hosted channels as well as any custom channels available

on the master Satellite server.

Now that Inter-Satellite Sync is configured, you can now use it to synchronize channels from the

master Satellite to the slave servers.

On the slave servers, configure the Master server hostname and SSL certificate file path in the

following lines of the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf file:

iss_parent

= master.satellite.domain.com

iss_ca_chain

= /usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

Then run the satellite-sync command by typing:

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