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Chapter 2. Requirements

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All unnecessary services should be disabled using ntsysv or

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The

service should be enabled.

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If the Satellite serves Monitoring-entitled systems and you wish to acknowledge via

email the alert notiﬁcations you receive, you must conﬁgure sendmail to properly handle

incoming mail as described in Section 4.4 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 read-

ing, 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 referencing 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, reg-

ister 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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