Red Hat NETWORK PROXY SERVER 3.6 -, Руководство по установке

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Chapter 4. Installation 17
Figure 4-5. Configure RHN Proxy Server
13. In the
Configure RHN Proxy Server
page, provide or confirm the entries for all required fields.
The Administrator Email Address will receive all mail generated by the Proxy, including some-
times large quantities of error-related tracebacks. To stem this flow, consider establishing mail
filters that capture messages with a subject of "RHN TRACEBACK from
hostname
". To list
more than one administrator, enter a comma-separated list of email addresses.
The RHN Proxy Hostname if the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the RHN Proxy
Server. The RHN Parent Server is the domain name of the server serving the Proxy, either the
central RHN Servers, another RHN Proxy Server or an RHN Satellite Server. To connect to the
central RHN Servers, include the value xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com . To connect to a Satellite
or another Proxy, enter the parent system’s FQDN.
If the RHN Proxy Server will connect through an HTTP proxy, configure it using the associated
fields. Note that references to protocol, such as
http://
or
https://
should not be included
in the
HTTP Proxy Server
field. Insert only the hostname and port in the form hostname:port,
such as my.corporate.gateway.example.com:3128.
Tip
The installation process affects only the Proxy configuration file:
/etc/rhn/rhn.conf
. The
Red Hat Update Agent (
up2date
) configuration file,
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
, must be
updated manually to receive its updates from another server, such as an RHN Satellite Server.
Finally, you must decide whether to enable SSL using the checkbox at the bottom. Red Hat
strongly recommends you employ this level of encryption for all traffic to and from the RHN
Proxy Server. To select it, however, you must be connecting to the central RHN Servers (which