Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Installation Manual

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Additional Requirements
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If the Satellite serves Monitoring-entitled systems and you wish to acknowledge via email the
alert notifications you receive, you must configure
sendmail
to properly handle incoming mail as
described in
Section 4.4, “Sendmail Configuration”
.
Finally, you should have the following technical documents in hand for use in roughly this order:
1.
The RHN Satellite Server Installation Guide
— This guide, which you are now reading, provides the
essential steps necessary to get an RHN Satellite Server up and running.
2.
The RHN Client Configuration Guide
— This guide explains how to configure the systems to be
served by an RHN Proxy Server or RHN Satellite Server. (This will also likely require referencing
The RHN Reference Guide
, which contains steps for registering and updating systems.)
3.
The RHN Channel Management Guide
— This guide identifies in great detail the recommended
methods for building custom packages, creating custom channels, and managing private Errata.
4.
The RHN Reference Guide
— This guide describes how to create RHN accounts, register and
update systems, and use the RHN website to its utmost potential. This guide will probably come in
handy throughout the installation and configuration process.