Installation guide

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
configure-proxy.sh installation program required to install RHN Proxy Server.
All rhncfg* packages installed on the Proxy (from the RHN T ools channel).
Either the rhns-certs-tools package installed on the Proxy (from the RHN Tools channel) for
RHN Hosted users, or the secure sockets layer (SSL) CA certificate password used to generate the
parent server certificate for RHN Satellite Server users.
Configuration of the system to accept remote commands and configuration management through Red
Hat Network if using the deprecated Web UI installation method. Refer to Section 4.2, “RHN Proxy
Server Installation Process” for instructions.
2.2. Hardware Requirements
The following hardware configuration is required for the RHN Proxy Server:
A Pentium IV Processor or equivalent
512 MB of memory
At least 5 GB storage for base install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
25+ GB storage per distribution/channel
The load on the Apache Web server is directly related to the frequency with which client systems
connect to the Proxy. If you reduce the default interval of four hours (or 240 minutes) as set in the
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd configuration file of the client systems, you will increase the load on this
component significantly.
Note
RHN Proxy Server does not support kickstart provisioning on multi-homed network topologies.
Kickstarts will not function properly on a Proxy server that has more than one network interface.
2.3. Disk Space Requirements
The caching mechanism used by RHN Proxy Server is the Squid HT TP proxy, which saves significant
bandwidth for the clients. It should have a reasonable amount of space available. T he cached packages
are stored in /var/spool/squid. T he required free space allotment is 6 GB storage per
distribution/channel.
If the RHN Proxy Server is configured to distribute custom, or local packages, make sure that the /var
mount point on the system storing local packages has sufficient disk space to hold all of the custom
packages, which are stored in /var/spool/rhn-proxy. T he required disk space for local packages
depends on the number of custom packages served.
2.4. Additional Requirements
The following additional requirements must be met before the RHN Proxy Server installation can be
considered complete:
Full Access
Client systems need full network access to the RHN Proxy Server services and ports.
Chapter 2. Requirements
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