Summary Of Steps - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 3.7 Installation Manual

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must be networked, but this can be a private network; an Internet connection is not required for any of
the systems. Refer to the RHN Proxy Server Installation Guide for more information.
Figure 1-1. Using RHN Satellite Server and RHN Proxy Server Together

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 Chapter 2 Requirements.
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. You log into the RHN website (rhn.redhat.com) and download the distribution ISOs for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS and RHN Satellite Server 3.7. Remember, Monitoring requires Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS 3 or 4. 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, you download the Channel Content ISOs to be served
by your Satellite, also available through the Downloads tab of your Satellite's Channel Details
Chapter 1. Introduction