Red Hat NETWORK PROXY 5.3.0 -, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 2. Requirements
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Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
The system upon which the RHN Proxy Server will be installed must resolve its own FQDN
properly.
A Red Hat Network Account
Customers who will be connecting to the central Red Hat Network Servers to receive incremental
updates must have a Red Hat Network account. The sales representative assists with the setup of
this account at the time of purchase.
Backups of Login Information
It is imperative that customers keep track of all primary login information. For RHN Proxy Server,
this includes usernames and passwords for the Organization Administrator account and SSL
certificate generation. Red Hat strongly recommends this information be copied onto two separate
floppy disks, printed out on paper, and stored in a fireproof safe.
Distribution Locations
Since the Proxy forwards virtually all local HTTP requests to the central RHN Servers, you must
take care to put files destined for distribution (such as in a kickstart installation tree) in the non-
forwarding location on the Proxy:
/var/www/html/pub/
. Files placed in this directory can be
downloaded directly from the Proxy. This can be especially useful for distributing GPG keys or
establishing installation trees for kickstarts.
In addition, Red Hat recommends that the system running the code not be publicly available. No users
but the system administrators should have shell access to these machines. All unnecessary services
should be disabled. You can use
ntsysv
or
chkconfig
to disable services.
Finally, you should have the following technical documents in hand for use in roughly this order:
1.
The RHN Proxy Server Installation Guide
— This guide, which you are now reading, provides the
essential steps necessary to get an RHN Proxy 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.