User manual REDHAT NETWORK PROXY SERVER 4.0 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] RHN Proxy Server 4. 0 Installation Guide RHN Proxy Server 4. 0: Installation Guide Copyright © 2001 - 2005 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606-2072 USA Phone: +1 919 754 3700 Phone: 888 733 4281 Fax: +1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triangle Park NC 27709 USA RHNproxy(EN)-4. 0-RHI (2005-04-20T13:40) Copyright © 2005 by Red Hat, Inc. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1. 0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www. opencontent. org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] All client systems should already be running the ntpd daemon and be set to the correct time zone. Disable the ipchains and iptables services after installation. · 4. 2. RHN Proxy Server Installation Process The following instructions describe the RHN Proxy Server installation process: 16 Chapter 4. Register the newly installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS system with Red Hat Network (either the central RHN Servers or your RHN Satellite Server) using the organizational account containing the RHN Proxy Server entitlement with the command: up2date --register. 2. Grant the system a Provisioning entitlement by visiting the RHN Website (or the fully qualified domain name of the Satellite serving the Proxy), logging in as the Organization Administrator, navigating to the Systems System Entitlements page, checking the box of system on which the RHN Proxy Server is to be installed and clicking the Add Provisioning button. Ensure the system is subscribed to the Red Hat Network Tools channel for its base operating system by clicking the name of the system and navigating to the System System Details Channels Software subtab. If the Red Hat Network Tools channel is not selected, please select it and subscribe the system to this channel by clicking on the Change Subscriptions button. Install all the rhncfg packages by navigating to the System System Details Packages Install subtab and searching for rhncfg using the Filter by Package Name text search box. In the resulting list, select all the packages and install them. If you will be enabling secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption on the Proxy and connecting to the central RHN Servers, install the rhns-certs-tools package from the same Red Hat Network Tools channel and use the RHN SSL Maintenance Tool to generate the tar file required later. Refer to the SSL Certificates chapter of the RHN Client Configuration Guide for instructions. If you will be enabling SSL encryption on the Proxy and connecting to an RHN Satellite Server or another RHN Proxy Server with SSL, you will also need the CA certificate password used for the parent system. Log into the system through a terminal as root and run the rhn_check command to immediately initiate the scheduled package installation. Once the packages have been installed, as confirmed through the System Details Events tab, prepare the system to accept remote commands and configuration management with the following command: /usr/bin/rhn-actions-control --enable-all 8. Within the RHN website, navigate to the System Details Proxy subtab. Warning Please note the RHN Proxy Server installation may replace the squid. conf and httpd. conf configuration files on the system to ease upgrades later. If you have edited these files and want to preserve them, they are rotated in place and can be retrieved after installation. Chapter 4. In the System Details Proxy subtab, the pulldown menu should indicate your ability to activate the system as an RHN Proxy Server. Ensure the version is properly selected and click the Activate Proxy button. The Welcome page of the installation appears. 18 Chapter 4. In the Welcome page, you will find notification of any requirements not met by the system. When the system is ready, a continue link appears. Click it to go to the Terms & Conditions page. Chapter 4. [. . . ] The Squid cache is located in /var/spool/squid/. To clear it, stop the Apache HTTP Server and Squid, delete the contents of that directory, and restart both services. Issue these commands in this order: service httpd stop service squid stop rm -fv /var/spool/squid/* service squid start service httpd start You may accomplish the same task more quickly by just clearing the directory and restarting squid, but you will likely receive a number of RHN traceback messages. The internal caching mechanism used for authentication by the Proxy may also need its cache cleared. [. . . ]