Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Reference Manual

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Chapter 12. UNIX Support Guide
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To enable access to the RHN client command man pages, add them to your MANPATH. To do so, add
the following commands to your login script:
# MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/man
# export MANPATH
Alternatively, you can also access the man pages from the command line, with the following
command:
# man -M /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/man
<man page>
Finally, add the Red Hat Libraries to your PATH as you did with
libgcc
,
openssl
and
zlib
.
crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l <current library paths> :/opt/redhat/rhn/
solaris/lib
12.3.2. Deploying Client SSL Certificates
To ensure secure data transfer, Red Hat strongly recommends the use of SSL. The RHN Satellite
eases implementation of SSL by generating the necessary certificates during its installation. The
server-side certificate is automatically installed on the Satellite itself, while the client certificate is
placed in the
/pub/
directory of the Satellite's Web server.
To install the certificate, follow these steps for each client:
1. Download the SSL certificate from the
/var/www/html/pub/
directory of the RHN
Satellite onto the client system. The certificate will be named something similar to
RHN-ORG-
TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
. It is accessible via the web at the following URL:
https://your-
satellite.example.com/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
.
2. Move the client SSL certificate to the RHN-specific directory for your UNIX variant. For Solaris, this
can be accomplished with a command similar to:
mv /path/to/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/share/
rhn/
When finished, the new client certificate will be installed in the appropriate directory for your UNIX
system. If you have a large number of systems to prepare for RHN management, you may script this
entire process.
Now you must reconfigure the RHN client applications to refer to the newly installed SSL certificate.
Refer to
Section 12.3.3, “Configuring the clients”
for instructions.
12.3.3. Configuring the clients
The final step before registering your client systems with Red Hat Network is to reconfigure their RHN
applications to use the new SSL certificate and obtain updates from the RHN Satellite. Both of these