Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 Installation Manual

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Chapter 8.57MaintenanceBecause of the RHN Satellite's unique closed environment, its users are provided with abilitiesnot available to any other Red Hat Network customers. In addition, the Satellite itself alsorequires maintenance. This chapter discusses the procedures that should be followed to carry outadministrative functions outside of standard use, as well as to apply patches to the RHN Satellite.8.1. Managing the Satellite ServiceSince the RHN Satellite consists of a multitude of individual components, Red Hat provides a masterservice that allows you to stop, start, or retrieve status information from the various services in theappropriate order: rhn-satellite. This helper service accepts all of the typical commands:service rhn-satellite startservice rhn-satellite stopservice rhn-satellite restartservice rhn-satellite statusUse the rhn-satellite service to shut down and bring up the entire RHN Satellite and retrievestatus messages from all of its services at once.8.2. Updating the SatelliteIf any critical updates are made to RHN Satellite, they will be released in the form of an Erratum for theRHN Satellite.For RHN Satellite systems that may be connected to the Internet, the best method for applying theseErrata Updates is using the Red Hat Update Agent via Red Hat Network. Since the RHN Satellite issubscribed to Red Hat Network during initial installation, the user should be able to run yum update(or up2date -u on versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux earlier than version 5) on the RHN Satelliteor use the website at https://rhn.redhat.com to apply the updates.ImportantApache RPMs do not restart the httpd service upon installation. Therefore, afterconducting a full update of an RHN Satellite Server (such as with the command yumupdate (or up2date -uf on earlier versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Apache mayfail. To avoid this, make sure you restart the httpd service after upgrading it.For RHN Satellite systems that may not be connected to the Internet, the packages themselves maybe retrieved using a customer account at https://rhn.redhat.com. Then, they can be applied manuallyby the customer according to instructions in the Errata Advisory.WarningIt is very important to read the Errata Advisory before applying any RHN Satellite ErrataUpdates. Additional configuration steps may be required to apply certain RHN Satellite