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Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Satellite Proxy

This chapter describes the initial installation of Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server. It presumes the prerequisites listed in Chapter 2, Requirements have been met. However, if you are upgrading to a later version of Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server, contact your Red Hat representative for assistance.

3.1. Base Install

Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server is designed to run on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Therefore, the first step is to install the base operating system. During and after the operating system installation process, ensure that you:
  • Allocate sufficient space to the partition that will be used to store packages according to the hardware requirements prescribed earlier. The default location for cached Red Hat packages is /var/spool/squid; custom packages are located in /var/spool/rhn-proxy.

    Note

    The installation program automatically calculates the available space on the partition where /var/spool/squid is mounted and allocates up to 60 per cent of the free space for use by Satellite Proxy.
  • Ensure the firewall rules are updated to meet the requirements stated in Section 2.4, “Additional Requirements”. Modify your iptables settings and restart the service.
  • Install the packages required by Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server.

    Important

    Install only the base Satellite Proxy packages as installing additional packages might cause the Satellite Proxy installation to fail.
    See Section 2.1, “Software Requirements” for how to obtain the correct package group needed for each version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Enable Network Time Protocol (NTP) and select the appropriate time zone on the Satellite Proxy and on all client systems.