Red Hat NETWORK PROXY SERVER 3.6 -, Installation Manual

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Chapter 4.
Installation
This chapter describes the initial installation of the RHN Proxy Server. It presumes the prerequisites
listed in Chapter 2 Requirements have been met. If you are instead upgrading to a newer version of
RHN Proxy Server, contact your Red Hat representative for assistance.
4.1. Base Install
The RHN Proxy Server is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS operating system.
Therefore, the first phase is to install the base operating system, either from disc, ISO image, or
kickstart. During and after operating system installation, make sure you:
•
Allocate plenty of space to the partition that will be used to store packages, according to the
hardware requirements set forth earlier. The default location for cached Red Hat packages is
/var/spool/squid
, while custom packages are located in
/var/spool/rhn-proxy
.
•
Install the packages required by RHN Proxy Server and only those packages. You must install only
the base packages as others will cause the RHN Proxy Server installation to fail Refer to Section
2.1 Software Requirements for the method to obtain the correct package group needed for each
version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS.
Important
If you plan to obtain Monitoring-level service, you must install your RHN Proxy Server on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3. This is the only supported base operating system for Proxies serving
Monitoring-entitled systems. Do not install Proxy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1.
•
Enable Network Time Protocol (NTP) on the Proxy and select the appropriate time zone. All client
systems should already be running the
ntpd
daemon and be set to the correct time zone.
•
Disable the
ipchains
and
iptables
services after installation.
4.2. RHN Proxy Server Installation Process
The following instructions describe how to run the RHN Proxy Server Installation Process:
1. Register the newly installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS system with Red Hat Network (either
the central RHN Servers or your RHN Satellite Server) using the organizational account con-
taining the RHN Proxy Server entitlement with either of these commands:
rhn_register
for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 Update 5 or
up2date --register
for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux AS 3 Update 3.
2. Open the RHN Website (or the fully qualified domain name of the Satellite serving the Proxy),
log in as the Organization Administrator, navigate to the Systems System Entitlements
page, and grant the system a Provisioning entitlement.
3. Click the name of the system and navigate to the System Details Channels Software
subtab. Ensure the system is subscribed to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for its base
operating system.
4. Navigate to the
System Details Packages Install
subtab and search for
rhncfg
. In the
resulting list, select all packages and install them.