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3.7. Performing Post-installation Tasks

After the main Satellite Proxy installation tasks have been completed, the installation program performs a number of additional tasks, such as creating configuration channels, and restarting modified daemons.
Configure SSL
The configure-proxy.sh program configures SSL, and prompts you to create a Certificate Authority password and confirm it before generating the SSL keys and the public certificate.

Example 3.2. Example Generation of CA Key and Public Certificate

Generating CA key and public certificate:
CA password: *********
CA password confirmation: *********
Create Configuration Channel
The installation program also requests confirmation that you want to create a configuration channel based on the configuration files created while running configure-proxy.sh.
The installation program creates a Satellite Server configuration channel based on the name of the system (the sysID) where the Satellite Proxy is installed (in the following example, the sysID is 1000010000), and collects the various httpd, SSL, squid, and jabberd server files that will comprise the configuration channel for the Satellite Proxy server.
An example of this configuration is shown in Example 3.3, “Example of Creating a Configuration Channel”.

Example 3.3. Example of Creating a Configuration Channel

Create and populate configuration channel rhn_proxy_config_1000010000? [Y]:
Using server name satellite.example.com
Red Hat Network username: admin
Password:
Creating config channel rhn_proxy_config_1000010000
Config channel rhn_proxy_config_1000010000 created
using server name satserver.example.com
Pushing to channel rhn_proxy_config_1000010001:
Local file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf -> remote file /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf
Local file /etc/rhn/rhn.conf -> remote file /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
Local file /etc/rhn/cluster.ini -> remote file /etc/rhn/cluster.ini
Local file /etc/squid/squid.conf -> remote file /etc/squid/squid.conf
Local file /etc/httpd/conf.d/cobbler-proxy.conf -> remote file /etc/httpd/conf.d/cobbler-proxy.conf
Local file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf -> remote file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Local file /etc/jabberd/c2s.xml -> remote file /etc/jabberd/c2s.xml
Local file /etc/jabberd/sm.xml -> remote file /etc/jabberd/sm.xml
Restart services
The final step of the installation process is to restart all of the Satellite Proxy-related services. The installation program exits when this step is completed.

Example 3.4. Restarting all Satellite Proxy Server-related Services

Enabling Satellite Proxy
Shutting down rhn-proxy...
Shutting down Jabber router:                               [  OK  ]
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Stopping squid:                                            [  OK  ]
Done.
Starting rhn-proxy...
init_cache_dir /var/spool/squid... Starting squid: .       [  OK  ]
Starting httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting Jabber services                                   [  OK  ]
Done.
If all services start successfully, the Satellite Proxy installation has been successful.