Installation guide

Chapter 7. Upgrading a Red Hat Proxy Server Installation

This chapter describes how to upgrade your Proxy Server installation. These instructions assume

that you have a fully functional Proxy Server and its required entitlements.

7.1. Prerequisit es

The latest version of Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server requires:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit only).

Removal of the previous Proxy server's system profile from the parent Satellite server.

7.2. Upgrading Your Proxy Inst allat ion

1. Back up your existing Proxy server. If applicable, restore the SSL build directory from the

backup to the directory /ro o t/ssl -bui l d .

2. Register the Proxy to the parent Satellite. Make sure that the Proxy is subscribed to both the

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server base channel and the Red Hat Network Tools child channel.

3. Install the spacewal k-pro xy-i nstal l er package from the Red Hat Network Tools child

channel:

# yum install spacewalk-proxy-installer

4. Install the latest version of Proxy, as documented in Section 3.5, “Installing the Red Hat

Satellite Proxy Server Packages” .

Note

If the Proxy server is registered to Red Hat Satellite, and the Proxy previously managed

custom channels, restore the custom package repository from the pre-upgrade

backup. The permissions and ownership will also need to be set up properly.

# chmod 0750 /var/spool/rhn-proxy

# chown apache:apache /var/spool/rhn-proxy

# mkdir -m 0750 -p /var/spool/rhn-proxy/list

# chown apache:apache /var/spool/rhn-proxy/list

The default custom package repository is usually /var/spo o l /rhn-pro xy.

5. After the installation, update the server to the latest errata updates:

# yum update

6. Restart the Proxy Server services and test the Proxy Server's functionality:

# /usr/sbin/rhn-proxy restart

⁠Chapt er 7 . Upgrading a Red Hat Pro xy Server Inst allat ion