Red Hat NETWORK PROXY SERVER 3.6 -, Installation Manual

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14 Chapter 4. Installation
5. If you will be enabling secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption on the Proxy and connecting to the
central RHN Servers, install the
rhns-certs-tools
package from the same Red Hat Network
Tools channel and use the RHN SSL Maintenance Tool to generate the tar file required later.
Refer to the SSL Certificates chapter of the RHN Client Configuration Guide for instructions. If
you will be enabling SSL encryption on the Proxy and connecting to an RHN Satellite Server
or another RHN Proxy Server with SSL, make sure you have the CA certificate password used
for the parent system.
6. Log into the system through a terminal as root and run the
rhn_check
command to immediately
initiate the scheduled package installation.
7. Once the packages have been installed, as confirmed through the
System Details Events
tab, prepare the system to accept remote commands and configuration management with the
following commands:
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script
touch /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/script/run
mkdir -p /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/configfiles
touch /etc/sysconfig/rhn/allowed-actions/configfiles/deploy
8. Within the RHN website, navigate to the
System Details Proxy
subtab.
Warning
Please note the RHN Proxy Server installation may replace the
squid.conf
and
httpd.conf
configuration files on the system to ease upgrades later. If you have edited these files and want
to preserve them, they are rotated in place and can be retrieved after installation.
Figure 4-1. System Details Proxy
9. In the System Details Proxy subtab, the pulldown menu should indicate your ability to
activate the system as an RHN Proxy Server. Ensure the version is properly selected and click
Activate Proxy . The Welcome page of the installation appears.