Installation guide

Regardless of whether you enabled SSL for the connection to the Proxy Parent
Server, you will be prompted to generate an SSL certificate.
This SSL certificate will allow client systems to connect to this Spacewalk
Proxy
securely. Refer to the Spacewalk Proxy Installation Guide for more
information.
Organization: Exam ple Company
Organization Unit [proxy1.example.com ]:
Common Nam e: proxy1.example.com
City: New York
State: New York
Country code: US
Em ail [adm in@exam ple.com]:
Enter the required details necessary to generate a proper SSL server certificate, including the
Organzation name, the Organization Unit (such as Engineering), the Com m on Nam e
(the domain name), as well as the details for City, State and Country. Finally, enter the email
address for the administrator or technical contact in charge of SSL certificates.
5. T he command-line installation program prompts you to install monitoring support to RHN Proxy
Server, allows you to create and populate a configuration channel for future RHN Proxy Server
installations, finalizes SSL configuration, and restarts any service daemons that had modified
configurations as a result of running the RHN Proxy Server installation program.
You do not have monitoring installed. Do you want to install it?
Will run 'yum install spacewalk-proxy-monitoring'. [Y/n]:n
Confirm whether or not you want to install Monitoring support on the Proxy server.
Generating CA key and public certificate:
CA password:
CA password confirm ation:
Copying CA public certificate to /var/www/html/pub for distribution to
clients:
Generating SSL key and public certificate:
CA password:
Backup m ade: 'rhn-ca-openssl.cnf' --> 'rhn-ca-openssl.cnf.1'
Rotated: rhn-ca-openssl.cnf --> rhn-ca-openssl.cnf.1
Installing SSL certificate for Apache and Jabberd:
Preparing packages for installation...
rhn-org-httpd-ssl-key-pair-proxy1.example-1.0-1
The configure-proxy.sh program then configures SSL, prompting you to create a Certificate
Authority password and confirm it before generating the SSL keys and the public certificate.
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