Conducting Satellite-Specific Tasks - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 8. Maintenance
If your original SSL certificate does not take your high-availability solution into
account, you may create a new one with a more appropriate Common Name value
now. In this case, you may also generate a new bootstrap script that captures this new
value.
3. After installation, copy the following files from the primary Satellite to the secondary
Satellite:
•
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf
• /etc/tnsnames.ora
• /var/www/rhns/server/secret/rhnSecret.py
4. Copy and install the server-side SSL certificate RPMs from the primary Satellite to
the secondary. Refer to the Sharing Certificates section of the RHN Client Config-
uration Guide for precise instructions. Remember, the Common Name value must
represent the combined Satellite solution, not a single machine's hostname.
If you generated a new SSL certificate during Satellite installation that included a
new Common Name value, copy the SSL certificate RPMs from the secondary to
the primary Satellite and redistribute the client-side certificate. If you also created
another bootstrap script, you may use this to install the certificate on client systems.
5. If you did not create a new bootstrap script, copy the contents of
/var/www/html/pub/bootstrap/
you did generate a new one, copy that directory's contents to the primary Satellite.
6. Turn off the RHN Task Engine on the secondary Satellite with the following com-
mand:
/sbin/service taskomatic stop
You may use custom scripting or other means to establish automatic start-up/failover
of the RHN Task Engine on the secondary Satellite. Regardless, it will need to be
started upon failover.
7. Share channel package data (by default located in
Satellites over some type of networked storage device. This eliminates data replica-
tion and ensures a consistent store of data for each Satellite.
8. Make the various Satellites available on your network via Common Name and a
method suiting your infrastructure. Options include round-robin DNS, a network
load balancer, and a reverse-proxy setup.
8.7. Conducting Satellite-Specific Tasks
Using a RHN Satellite Server is quite similar to using the hosted version of Red Hat Net-
work. For this reason, you should consult the RHN Reference Guide to obtain detailed in-
structions to standard tasks, such as editing System Profiles and updating packages. Tasks
from the primary Satellite to the secondary. If
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