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Chapter 2. Requirements
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To do this for kickstart installation, include the command
selinux --disabled
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After the installation is complete, edit the
/etc/selinux/config
file to read
SELINUX=disabled
and reboot the system.
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Finally, you can use the
system-config-securitylevel-tui
command and reboot
the system.
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An available RHN Proxy Server entitlement within your Red Hat Network account.
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An available Provisioning entitlement within your Red Hat Network account (which
should come packaged with your RHN Proxy Server entitlement).
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Access to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for the installed version of Red Hat En-
terprise Linux AS.
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All
rhncfg*
packages installed on the Proxy (from the RHN Tools channel).
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Either the
rhns-certs-tools
package installed on the Proxy (from the RHN Tools
channel) or the secure sockets layer (SSL) CA certificate password used to generate the
parent server certificate (such as on an RHN Satellite Server).
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Configuration of the system to accept remote commands and configuration management
through Red Hat Network. Refer to Section 4.2
RHN Proxy Server Installation Process
for instructions.
2.2. Hardware Requirements
The following hardware configuration is required for the RHN Proxy Server:
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Pentium III processor, 1.26GHz, 512K cache or equivalent
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512 MB of memory
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3 GB storage for base install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
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6 GB storage per distribution/channel
The load on the Apache HTTP Server is directly related to the frequency with which client
systems connect to the Proxy. If you reduce the default interval of four hours (or 240 min-
utes) as set in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd
configuration file of the client systems,
you will
increase
the load on this component significantly.
2.3. Disk Space Requirements
The caching mechanism used by RHN Proxy Server is the Squid HTTP proxy, which saves
significant bandwidth for the clients. It should have a reasonable amount of space available.
The cached packages are stored in
/var/spool/squid
. The required free space allotment
is 6 GB storage per distribution/channel.
