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10.2.3. Client-Side Application Functionality with a Self-Subscribed Satellite
Red Hat provides various client-side tools for interaction with various aspects of a Red Hat Satellite. The list below outlines whether or not a client-side application functions on a Self-Subscribed Satellite server.
Warning
Do not force the installation of the
rhnmd
client-side monitoring package onto a self-subscribed Satellite as this will break Monitoring.
Important
There are several important things to note about a self-subscribed Satellite:
- If a client-side application is not listed here it has not been tested.
- Red Hat recommends that Administrators lock the registered Self-Subscribed Satellite within the Satellite web interface. This prevents any scheduled event from executing. Before unlocking the Satellite review the pending events and delete those you do not want to run.
- Red Hat recommends Administrators entitle the Self-Subscribed Satellite to the Management level but with no Provisioning or Monitoring entitlements. This helps to avoid possible harmful or accidental changes to the Satellite server.
- If the self-subscribed Satellite has been granted a Provisioning entitlement do not attempt to use the Satellite to re-provision itself. The Satellite will attempt to perform the re-installation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system but on reboot the Red Hat installation program will be unable to download the necessary packages from the Satellite to perform the installation. There is a high risk of data loss and service interruption for your Satellite, especially if external kickstart trees are used.
- Red Hat Update Agent ToolsThe
up2date
,rhn_check
,rhnsd
and,yum
packages will all function normally on a self-subscribed Satellite. - PushThe
osad
package will not install. Theosad
package is used to push packages to client systems but it conflicts with the server-sideosa-dispatcher
package. Do not attempt to force the installation ofosad
on a self-subscribed Satellite. - AppletBoth the
rhn-applet-tui
package and therhn-applet-gui
package will function normally. Installation and configuration of therhn-applet-tui
andrhn-applet-gui
packages will complete normally. These packages allow client systems to communicate with the Satellite.Note
Therhn-applet-gui
requires packages that are not installed by default. - Configuration Client ToolThe
rhncfg-client
package will function normally after a change to the configuration file. Edit the/etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhncfg-client.conf
file and change thesystemIdPath
option to match the path tosystemid.up2date
created in Procedure 10.3, “Installing and Configuring a Self-Subscribed Satellite”. - Configuration Management ToolThe
rhncfg-manager
package will function normally. - Custom InfoThe
rhn-custom-info
package will function normally. - Client MonitoringThe
rhnmd
package will not install. Therhnmd
package conflicts with the server-side monitoring packages. Do not attempt to force the installation ofrhnmd
as this will break Monitoring on the Satellite.