How can I register Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems via Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5 server?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Red Hat Satellite 5 and Satellite Proxy 5

Issue

  • How to register a RHEL system to Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5?
  • What is the process to subscribe a server to a Red Hat Satellite server through a Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5 server?
  • How can I register Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to a Red Hat Satellite using Red Hat Proxy 5.x?
  • What is Red Hat Satellite Proxy and what is procedure for RHEL system subscription via Proxy?
  • Got new RHEL Satellite Proxy subscriptions, how I can register to Red Hat Satellite using Proxy 5 server?

Resolution

RHEL 7 NOTE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is only available through This content is not included.Red Hat Subscription Management tools or via Red Hat Satellite 5.6 or newer. Customers using Red Hat Network (RHN) Classic Hosted or stand-alone Red Hat Satelite Proxy (i.e. without Red Hat Satellite 5.6) cannot access RHEL 7.
*Red Hat Satellite Proxy server ‘Stand-Alone’ references a component of a Red Hat Satellite deployment which is used as a stand-alone (Satellite-less) offering, and as of October 31, 2017 is now end-of-life.

From the RHEL client system, do the following:

  • Edit "serverURL" and "sslCACert" in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file as follows:

    serverURL=https://<fqdn_or_IP_address_of_RHN_Proxy>/XMLRPC
sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

  • Copy the CACert from the Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5 server to the client:

    # curl -O http://<fqdn_or_IP_address_of_RHN_Proxy>/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

    Or:

    # wget http://<fqdn_or_IP_address_of_RHN_Proxy>/pub/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

  • Or install the CA SSL public certificate RPM. For example, if it resides in the /pub directory of Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5 server, it can be installed on a client system directly:

    # rpm -Uvh http://<fqdn_or_IP_address_of_RHN_Proxy>/pub/rhn-org-trusted-ssl-cert-VER-REL.noarch.rpm

  • Confirm the actual name of the certificate or RPM before running these commands. For detailed information, please refer to
    Deploying the CA SSL Public Certificate to Clients

  • Copy the CA certificate to /usr/share/rhn/ with permission as below:

    -rw-r--r--.   1 root root  5245 Dec 11 15:09 RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT

  • Register the system

    # rhn_register

For yum use the proxy please use following configuration

Add the following configuration to /etc/yum.conf

# The proxy server - proxy server:port number
proxy=http://proxy.mydomain.com:3128
# The account details for yum connections
proxy_username=proxy-user
proxy_password=password

RHEL Systems Registration Guide

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