Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 - RELEASE NOTES, Installation Manual

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Chapter 4. Installation
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4. Ensure that the RHN Entitlement Certificate has been copied onto the Satellite's file system. It
can be named anything and located in any directory. The installation program will ask you for its
location. Also, make sure your account has been granted the necessary entitlements to conduct the
installation. For instance, a new Satellite will require both a Management or Provisioning entitlement
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and an RHN Satellite Server entitlement.
Warning
Users should note that the
RHN Satellite Server Installation Program
updates the
kernel, as well as all required packages.
5. From the
/media/cdrom/
directory, enter the following command to start the
RHN Satellite
Server Installation Program
:
./install.pl
This script has several options to assist with your installation process. To view these options, enter
the following command:
./install.pl --help
6. The script first runs through a pre-requisite check. These checks make certain that all prerequisites
from
Chapter 2, Requirements
are met before proceeding with the installation.
* Starting the Red Hat Network Satellite installer.
* Performing pre-install checks.
* Pre-install checks complete. Beginning installation.
7. At the prompt, enter the email address to which you would like notifications from the Satellite to
be sent. It may be a good idea to choose a general email address rather than the address of an
individual, as there can be a large volume of emails.
? Admin email address? sat-admin@example.com
8. The Satellite is then registered with your RHN Hosted account, and all required packages are
installed and updated.
* RHN Registration
* Installing updates.
* Installing RHN packages.
9. Next, the RHN Satellite Server Installation Program downloads and installs the RHN GPG key,
including setting up the
/root/.gnupg/
directory, if required.
* Setting up environment and users
** GPG: Initializing GPG and importing RHN key.
** GPG: Creating /root/.gnupg directory