Red Hat NETWORK PROXY SERVER 3.6 -, Installation Manual

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Chapter 2. Requirements 7
It is imperative customers keep track of all primary login information. For RHN Proxy Server, this
includes usernames and passwords for the Organization Administrator account and SSL certificate
generation. Red Hat strongly recommends this information be copied onto two separate floppy
disks, printed out on paper, and stored in a fireproof safe.
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Distribution Locations
Since the Proxy forwards virtually all HTTP requests to the central RHN Servers, you must take
care to put files destined for distribution (such as in a kickstart installation tree) in one of two non-
forwarding locations on the Proxy:
/var/www/html/pub/
and
/var/www/html/_rhn_proxy/
.
Files placed in these directories can be downloaded directly from the Proxy. This can be especially
useful for distributing GPG keys or establishing installation trees for kickstarts.
In addition, Red Hat recommends the system running the code not be publicly available. No users but
the system administrators should have shell access to these machines. All unnecessary services should
be disabled. You can use
ntsysv
or
chkconfig
to disable services.
Finally, you should have the following technical documents in hand for use in roughly this order:
1. The RHN Proxy Server Installation Guide — This guide, which you are now reading, provides
the essential steps necessary to get an RHN Proxy 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.