Installation guide

Chapter 2. Requirements
These requirements must be met before installation. T he Satellite itself must be of a version greater
than or equal to the version of the Proxy that you are trying to install. For example, if you want to install
RHN Proxy Server 5.1, the Satellite version should be 5.1 or later, and can not be 5.0 or lower.
2.1. Software Requirements
To perform an installation, the following software-related components must be available:
Base operating system — RHN Proxy Server is supported with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The operating system can be installed from disc, local ISO image,
kickstart, or any of the methods supported by Red Hat.
Note
Each purchased RHN Proxy product includes one supported instance of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server. RHN Proxy must be installed onto a fresh installation of Enterprise Linux where
RHN Proxy is the only application and service provided by the OS. Using the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OS included in RHN Proxy to run other daemons, applications, or services
within your environment is not supported.
Each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires a certain package set to support RHN Proxy
Server. Adding more packages can cause errors during installation. Therefore, Red Hat recommends
obtaining the desired package set in the following ways:
Note
For kickstarting, specify the following package group: @ Base
For installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux via CD or ISO image, select the following package
group: Minim al
Warning
If you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4, Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) must be
disabled prior to installation of RHN Proxy Server. If you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Server, SELinux can be left enabled when installing RHN Proxy Server.
You can disable SELinux in one of several ways:
During CD or ISO image installation, select Disabled when presented with options for
SELinux support.
To do this for kickstart installation, include the command selinux --disabled
After the installation is complete, edit the /etc/selinux/config file to read
SELINUX=disabled and reboot the system.
Finally, you can use the system-config-securitylevel-tui command and reboot
the system.
An available RHN Proxy Server entitlement within your RHN Satellite Server account.
An available Provisioning entitlement within your RHN Satellite Server account (which should come
packaged with your RHN Proxy Server entitlement).
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