Installation guide

Chapter 2. Requirements
This chapter focuses on the prerequisites for installing Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server.
2.1. Soft ware Requirement s
To perform an installation, the following software-related components must be available:
Base operating system: Satellite 5.7 and Satellite Proxy 5.7 are only supported on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6. You can install the operating system using any of the methods supported by
Red Hat.
Satellite Proxy requires an equal or high version of Satellite. For example, Satellite Proxy 5.6
works with Satellite 5.6 and Satellite 5.7, but Satellite Proxy 5.7 works only with Satellite 5.7.
A Satellite Proxy entitlement within the Satellite Server account.
A Provisioning entitlement within the Satellite Server account (this is packaged with the Satellite
Proxy entitlement).
Access to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for the installed version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This channel includes the spacewalk-proxy-installer package that contains the co nfi g ure-
pro xy. sh installation program required to install Satellite Proxy.
All rhncfg* packages installed on the Satellite Proxy (from the Red Hat Network Tools channel).
Either the spacewalk-certs-tools package installed on the Satellite Proxy (from the Red Hat Network
Tools channel) for Hosted users, or the secure sockets layer (SSL) CA certificate password used
to generate the parent server certificate for Satellite Server users.
Important
Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server 5.7 can only run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. It can manage
clients of any RHEL version when used with Satellite 5.7. Satellite Proxy Server 5.7 cannot
manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 clients in a Proxy-only environment.
Virt u aliz atio n Su p p o rt
You can install Satellite Proxy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or 6 in any virtualized environment that
Red Hat supports, including Xen, Hyper-V, KVM, and VMware. For more information about supported
environments, see https://access.redhat.com/site/certified-hypervisors.
In production deployments, Red Hat recommends that you deploy Satellite Proxy as the sole
application running on the underlying physical hardware to avoid contention issues. Also, be aware
that functional support for virtualized environments does not always equal the performance of
running on physical hardware, so carefully consider the virtualized environment of choice and any
recommended tuning guidelines.
Each purchased Satellite Proxy includes one supported instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.
Satellite Proxy must be installed onto a fresh installation of Enterprise Linux, and where Satellite
Proxy is the only application and service provided by the operating system. Using the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux operating system included in Satellite Proxy to run other daemons, applications, or
services within the environment is not supported.
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