Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0, Installation Manual

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Chapter 2. Requirements 15
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All unnecessary services should be disabled using ntsysv or
chkconfig
.
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The
httpd
service should be enabled.
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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 read-
ing, 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, reg-
ister 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.