Installation guide

Chapter 4. Red Hat Satellite and Solaris-specific Information
This is a section on using Red Hat Satellite with Solaris systems.
4.1. UNIX Support Guide
This chapter documents the installation procedure for, and identifies differences in, Red Hat Network
functionality when used to manage UNIX-based client systems. Red Hat Network offers UNIX support
to help customers migrate from UNIX to Linux. Because of the limited scope of this task, the features
offered for UNIX client management are not as comprehensive as those available for managing Red
Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
Subsequent sections specify supported UNIX variants, Red Hat Network features supported by the
UNIX management system, the prerequisites for managing a UNIX system with Red Hat Network, as
well as the installation procedure for UNIX clients.
4 .1.1. Support ed UNIX Variant s
The following UNIX variants, versions, and architectures are supported by Red Hat Satellite:
T ab le 4 .1. Su p p o rted So laris Arch it ect u res an d Version s
So laris Versio n sun 4 m sun 4 d sun 4 u sun 4 v sun 4 us x86
Solaris 8 yes no yes n/a no no
Solaris 9 yes n/a yes n/a no yes
Solaris 10 n/a n/a yes yes no yes
4 .1.2. Prerequisit es
These items are needed to obtain UNIX support:
Red Hat Satellite 5.0 or later
A Satellite certificate with Management entitlements
Management entitlements for each UNIX client
Red Hat Network packages for UNIX including python, pyOpenSSL, and the Red Hat Network
Client packages
Sunfreeware packages that provide supporting libraries
Note
Some of these packages are available via the Red Hat Satellite. See Section 4.1.7.1,
“ D ownloading and Installing Additional Packages” for the complete list.
4 .1.3. Included Feat ures
The following features are included in the UNIX support service level agreement as they exist within
Red Hat Network:
Red Hat Sat ellit e 5.7 Client Configurat ion G u ide
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