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2.4.13. Service Access
No system components should be directly, publicly available. No user, other than the system administrators, should have shell access to these machines.
All unnecessary services should be disabled using ntsysv or
chkconfig.
The following services should be enabled.
- jabberd
- postgresql (for Embedded Database Installation)
- tomcat6 (for installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6)
- httpd
- osa-dispatcher
- Monitoring
- MonitoringScout
- rhn-search
- cobblerd
- taskomatic
If Red Hat Satellite serves Monitoring-entitled systems and you wish to acknowledge via email the alert notifications you receive, configure sendmail or postfix to properly handle incoming mail.

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