Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.2 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT, Руководство по установке

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Summary of Steps
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1.5. Summary of Steps
Implementing a fully functional RHN Satellite Server requires more than installing software and a
database. Client systems must be configured to use the Satellite. Custom packages and channels
should be created for optimal use. Since these tasks extend beyond the basic installation, they are
covered in detail in other guides, as well as this
RHN Satellite Server Installation Guide
. For a full list
of the necessary technical documents, refer to
Chapter 2, Requirements
.
For this reason, this section seeks to provide a definitive list of all required and recommended steps,
from evaluation through custom package deployment. They should take place in roughly this order:
1. After an evaluation, you contact your Red Hat sales representative to purchase RHN Satellite
Server.
2. Your Red Hat contact sends you an RHN Entitlement Certificate via email.
3. Your Red Hat contact creates a Satellite-entitled account on the RHN website and sends you the
login information.
4. Log into the RHN website (rhn.redhat.com) and download the distribution ISOs for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux AS 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and RHN Satellite Server 5.2.0. These can
be found within the
Downloads
tab of the respective
Channel Details
pages. Refer to the
RHN
Reference Guide
for instructions.
5. While still logged into the RHN website, download the Channel Content ISOs to be served by your
Satellite, also available through the
Downloads
tab of your Satellite's
Channel Details
page.
These Channel Content ISOs differ from the distribution ISOs previously mentioned in that they
contain metadata necessary for parsing and serving packages by Satellite.
6. If installing a Stand-Alone Database, prepare your database instance using the formula provided in
Chapter 2, Requirements
.
7. Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and then RHN Satellite Server 5.2.0 on the Satellite machine.
8. Create the first user account on the Satellite by opening the Satellite's hostname in a Web browser
and clicking
Create Account
. This will be the Satellite Administrator's (also referred to as the
Organization Administrator) account.
9. Use the
RHN Satellite Synchronization Tool
to import the channels and associated packages into
the Satellite.
10.Register a representative machine for each distribution type, or channel (such as Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 or 5), to the Satellite.
11.Copy (using SCP) the
rhn_register
and
up2date
configuration files from the
/etc/
sysconfig/rhn/
directory of each machine individually to the
/pub/
directory on the Satellite.
The
rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-*.noarch.rpm
will already be there.
12.Download and install from the Satellite the configuration files and
rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-
*.noarch.rpm
on the remaining client systems of the same distribution type. Repeat this and the
previous step until all distribution types are complete.
13.Through the Satellite's website, create an Activation Key for each distribution aligned to the
appropriate base channel. At this point, system groups and child channels may also be predefined.