Chapter 2.
Requirements
These requirements must be met before installation.
2.1. Software Requirements
To perform an installation, the following software components must be available:
•
Base operating system — RHN Satellite Server is supported with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1
Update 5 or later and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3 or later only. The operating system
can be installed from disc, local ISO image, kickstart, or any of the methods supported by Red Hat
but must contain certain packages not included in a standard installation.
Important
If you plan to obtain Monitoring-level service, you
must
install your RHN Satellite Server on Red
Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3. This is the only supported base operating system for Satellites
serving Monitoring-entitled systems.
Each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS requires additional packages to support RHN Satellite
Server. Although these requirements may be met by conducting an
Everything
install, Red Hat
this installs packages that if not properly managed could pose security hazards. For this reason, Red
Hat recommends obtaining the desired package set in the following ways:
For kickstarting Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3, specify the following packages and
groups:
•
@ Base
•
@ Server
•
@ Development Tools
•
@ Legacy Software Development
•
perl-CGI
•
perl-Time-HiRes
For installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3 via CD or ISO image, select the following
package groups:
•
Web Server
•
Mail Server
•
Development Tools
•
Legacy Software Development
Then after operating system installation, register the system with RHN and use the
Red Hat Update
Agent
to install the outstanding packages with the following command:
up2date perl-CGI perl-libwww-perl perl-URI perl-XML-Parser perl-DateManip /
perl-XML-Dumper perl-libxml-enno perl-Parse-Yapp perl-XML-Encoding
Once updated, delete the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 Update 3 system profile from RHN, as it
will be reregistered during Satellite installation.
For kickstarting Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 Update 5, specify the following package groups:
Summary of Contents for NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 3.6
Page 1: ...RHN Satellite Server 3 6 Installation Guide...
Page 10: ...6 Chapter 1 Introduction...
Page 32: ...28 Chapter 4 Installation...
Page 36: ...32 Chapter 5 Entitlements...
Page 44: ...40 Chapter 6 Importing and Synchronizing...
Page 60: ...56 Appendix A Sample RHN Satellite Server Configuration File...
