Installation guide

Chapter 2. Red Hat Satellite and Solaris-specific Information
This is a section on using Red Hat Satellite with Solaris systems.
2.1. UNIX Support Guide
2.1.1. Introduction
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.
2.1.1.1. Supported UNIX Variants
The following UNIX variants, versions, and architectures are supported by Red Hat Satellite:
Table 2.1. Supported Solaris Archit ectures and Versions
Solaris Version sun4 m sun4 d sun4 u sun4 v sun4 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
2.1.1.2. 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 2.1.3.1,
“Downloading and Installing Additional Packages” for the complete list.
2.1.1.3. Included Feat ures
The following features are included in the UNIX support service level agreement as they exist within Red
Hat Network:
The Red Hat Network Service Daemon (rhnsd), which triggers rhn_check according to a
configurable interval
Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Reference Guide
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