Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note page 7

Chapter 2.
Major Corrections
The following are the major bug fixes and workarounds released as part of RHN Satellite 5.3.0.
• File paths related to the Monitoring feature of RHN Satellite have been rewritten to conform to
the Linux Standards Base (LSB). Monitoring files that were once in the /opt directory have
been moved to /usr/bin/ for executable scripts, /var/log/ for log files, and /var/lib/ for
associated library files.
For example, to execute the script called monitor-queue, instead of typing /opt/
notification/scripts/monitor-queue you can now type monitor-queue or /usr/sbin/
monitor-queue at a shell prompt.
• rhn-proxy and rhn-satellite are no longer running services. All services related to RHN
Proxy Server and RHN Satellite functionality (httpd, jabberd, tomcat, Monitoring, Monitoring
Scout, and the database service) can be stopped, started, and restarted individually.
You can stop, start, or restart all Satellite services at once using the following command:
/usr/sbin/rhn-satellite {stop|start|restart}
You can stop, start, or restart Proxy using the following command:
/usr/sbin/rhn-proxy {stop|start|restart}
• The default Virtualization Type when creating a kickstart profile has been changed from none
(which is no longer an option) to Xen para-virtualized Guest. If you do not intend to creat a
kickstart profile for virtual guest, you should leave it at the default and it will not affect your profile.
• RHN Satellite no longer supports kickstart distributions located outside of the Satellite server. All
distributions must be synced and located on the Satellite server itself.
• The Nocpulse home directory has been moved from /home/nocpulse to /var/lib/nocpulse.
Nocpulse is now created as system account with uid of less than 500.
• An issue has been fixed where Monitoring would fail to run with an external database that had a
different name than the database instance name.
• Monitoring probes now work even when the SSH daemon has defined banner text.
• An issue has been fixed where repomd cache files were broken for custom channels on RHN Proxy
on RHEL 5 systems.
To resolve this issue, after reinstallation of Proxy, run the following command:
rm -f /var/spool/rhn-proxy/list/*
• Monitoring code has been refactored and all files from the /opt/ directory related to Monitoring
have been moved to their proper directories (/etc/nocpulse/, /var/lib/nocpulse/, /var/
log/nocpulse/, and /var/log/notification).
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