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Chapter 2. Requirements
to client systems, as described in Section 8.10 Enabling Push to Clients, you must allow inbound
connections on port 5222. Finally, if the Satellite will also push to an RHN Proxy Server, you must
also allow inbound connections on port 5269.
No system components should be directly, publicly available. No user other than the system admin-
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istrators should have shell access to these machines.
All unnecessary services should be disabled using ntsysv or
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The service should be enabled.
• httpd
If the Satellite will serve Monitoring-entitled systems and you wish to acknowledge via email the
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alert notifications you receive, you must configure sendmail to properly handle incoming mail as
described in Section 4.3 Sendmail Configuration.
Finally, you should have the following technical documents in hand for use in roughly this order:
1. The RHN Satellite Server Installation Guide — This guide, which you are now reading, provides
the essential steps necessary to get an RHN Satellite Server up and running.
2. The RHN Client Configuration Guide — This guide explains how to configure the systems to
be served by an RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. (This will also likely require refer-
encing The RHN Reference Guide, which contains steps for registering and updating systems.)
3. The RHN Channel Management Guide — This guide identifies in great detail the recommended
methods for building custom packages, creating custom channels, and managing private Errata.
4. The RHN Reference Guide — This guide describes how to create RHN accounts, register and
update systems, and use the RHN website to its utmost potential. This guide will probably come
in handy throughout the installation and configuration process.
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