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Chapter 4. Installation
4.2. RHN Proxy Server Installation Process
The following instructions describe the RHN Proxy Server installation process:
1. Register the newly-installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS system with Red Hat Net-
work (either the central RHN Servers or your RHN Satellite Server) using the orga-
nizational account containing the RHN Proxy Server entitlement with the command:
up2date
--register
.
2. Grant the system a Provisioning entitlement. Visit the RHN Website (or the fully
qualified domain name of the Satellite serving the Proxy), login as the Organization
Administrator, and navigate to the
Your RHN
⇒
Subscription Management
page.
Check the box of system on which the RHN Proxy Server is to be installed, select
Provisioning from the drop-down box, and click the
Add Entitlement
button.
3. Ensure that the system is subscribed to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for its
base operating system by clicking the name of the system and navigating to the
System
⇒
System Details
page. Under the
Subscribed Channels
section, check
the listed channels for the Tools channel. If not subscribed to this channel, click the
Alter Channel Subscriptions
link, check the box next to the tools channel, and then
click the
Change Subscriptions
button to confirm your choice.
4. Install all of the
rhncfg
packages by first navigating to the
System
⇒
System De-
tails
⇒
Software
⇒
Packages
⇒
Install
subtab. Next, search for
rhncfg
using
the
Filter by Package Name
text search box. In the resulting list, select all of the
packages and install them.
5. If you will be enabling secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption on the Proxy and con-
necting 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, you will also need 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 command:
/usr/bin/rhn-actions-control --enable-all
8. Within the RHN website, navigate to the
System Details
⇒
Details
⇒
Proxy
sub-
tab.
