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HowToInstallProxy16

Grant Gainey edited this page Dec 12, 2016 · 2 revisions

Spacewalk Proxy Installation Instructions

These instructions are for Spacewalk Proxy 0.2 onwards

If you're looking for instructions for the RHN Proxy product see the Red Hat Network Satellite documentation.

Prerequisites

  • Disable SELinux or install spacewalk-proxy-selinux
  • Around 6GB storage per distribution under /var/spool/squid (or whereever you want your Squid cache to be)
  • Outbound open ports 80, 443, 4545 (only if you want to enable monitoring) and 5269
  • Inbound open ports 80, 443 and 5222
  • An upstream RHN Satellite server with an available Proxy entitlement or a Spacewalk server
  • Machine where you will install Spacewalk Proxy must be registered against Spacewalk Server, which you will proxy.
  • A provisioning entitlement for the Proxy server
  • Enable EPEL yum repository

Repository

RPM downloads of the project are available through yum repositories:

Spacewalk-repo

To use the official repository install spacewalk-repo RPM:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS

rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/5/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.6-1.el5.noarch.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Fedora 15

rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/15/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.6-1.fc14.noarch.rpm

Fedora 16

rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/Fedora/16/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.6-1.fc15.noarch.rpm

Nightly builds

If you want to use the nightly builds, add a .repo file pointing to the nightly repository:

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo << 'EOF'
[spacewalk]
name=Spacewalk
# RHEL 5 / CentOS 5
baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/nightly/RHEL/5/$basearch/
# RHEL 6
baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/nightly/RHEL/6/$basearch/
# Fedora 15
#baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/nightly/Fedora/15/$basearch/
# Fedora 16
#baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/nightly/Fedora/16/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk-2010
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

Installation

Ensure your machine is registered in Spacewalk and has a provisioning entitlement. Then just ask yum to install the application:

yum install spacewalk-proxy-installer

This will pull down and install the set of RPMs required for the installer to run. Below is an example of the set of packages pulled in:

========================================================================================================================
 Package                                 Arch                 Version                     Repository               Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 spacewalk-proxy-installer               noarch               0.5.25-1.el5                spacewalk                40 k
Installing for dependencies:
 rhncfg                                  noarch               5.9.5-1.el5                 spacewalk                58 k
 rhncfg-actions                          noarch               5.9.5-1.el5                 spacewalk                28 k
 rhncfg-client                           noarch               5.9.5-1.el5                 spacewalk                24 k
 rhncfg-management                       noarch               5.9.5-1.el5                 spacewalk                33 k

If this is the first time installing an RPM from the Spacewalk repo, yum will prompt you to install the GPG key:

Importing GPG key 0x430A1C35 "Spacewalk <[email protected]>" from http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/RPM-GPG-KEY-spacewalk
Is this ok [y/N]: y

Then you need to configure the proxy. Run:

configure-proxy.sh

and follow the prompts. This will download and configure the nessecery packages. Once installed use /usr/sbin/rhn-proxy to stop and start the service.

You should now be able to navigate to the hostname of your proxy in a web browser and see the Spacewalk Proxy page. If you see an error here there's likely something wrong with your install.

Automated Installation

The configure-proxy.sh install script supports an answer file to allow you to preanswer the questions. For the full list of variables see "man configure-proxy.sh".

configure-proxy.sh --answerfile=proxyanswers.txt

proxyanswers.txt:

VERSION="1.6"
RHN_PARENT="spacewalk.example.com"
TRACEBACK_EMAIL="[email protected]"
USE_SSL="Y"
CA_CHAIN="/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT"
HTTP_PROXY=
SSL_ORG="Example Org"
SSL_ORGUNIT="proxy1.example.com"
SSL_COMMON="proxy1.example.com"
SSL_CITY="New York"
SSL_STATE="New York"
SSL_COUNTRY="US"
SSL_EMAIL="[email protected]"
INSTALL_MONITORING="n"
POPULATE_CONFIG_CHANNEL="n"

As this example doesn't answer all the questions (e.g. SSL_PASSWORD) you'd still be prompted for that value. If you know that you've answered all questions then you can run with --non-interactive.

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