Installation guide

add these subscriptions to the entitlement certificate.
8. Click the Do wnl o ad Satel l i te C erti fi cate and save the entitlement certificate.
The updated certificate now contains entitlements for Red Hat Satellite Proxy. The next section shows
how to upload this refreshed certificate to your Satellite server.
3.3. Uploading Sat ellit e Proxy Ent it lement s t o Sat ellit e
The next step requires uploading the updating entitlements certificate to your Satellite server, which
involves the following steps:
1. Log into your Red Hat Satellite server as an administration user.
2. Navigate to Admin → Red Hat Sat ellite Con f ig u rat ion → Cert if icat e.
3. Click Bro wse and select the updated certificate file.
4. Synchronize the required Proxy channel and RHN Tools channel. Log in through SSH to the
Satellite server and run the following command as ro o t:
[root@ satellite ~]# satellite-sync -c rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-
6 -c redhat-rhn-proxy-5.7-server-x86_64-6
5. Once synchronized, add these entitlments to an activation key. Navigate to Syst ems →
Act ivat io n Keys and click create new key. Add the base channel for these entitlement,
such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux base channel, and select P ro vi si o ni ng and
Mo ni to ri ng entitlements. Click C reate Acti vati o n Key to complete.
The Satellite server now contains the required entitlements to install the Red Hat Satellite Proxy. The
resulting activation key contains these entitlements and is used to register the Proxy host to the
required channels.
3.4. Inst alling t he Operat ing Syst em on t he Sat ellit e Proxy Host
Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
The first step is to install the base operating system. See the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Installation
Guide ⁠ for details.
Note
If you have base channels for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on your Satellite server, you can
kickstart the machine to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. See the Red Hat Satellite Getting
Started Guide for more information on kickstarts.
During and after the operating system installation process, ensure that you perform the following
tasks:
Allocate sufficient space to the partition used to store packages, according to the hardware
requirements prescribed earlier. The default location for cached Red Hat packages is
/var/spo o l /sq ui d ; custom packages are located in /var/spo o l /rhn-pro xy.
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