2.2. Hardware Requirements

The following hardware configuration is required for the RHN Proxy Server:

A Pentium IV Processor or equivalent
512 MB of memory
At least 5 GB storage for base install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
25+ GB storage per distribution/channel

The load on the Apache Web server is directly related to the frequency with which client systems connect to the Proxy. If you reduce the default interval of four hours (or 240 minutes) as set in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhnsd configuration file of the client systems, you will increase the load on this component significantly.

Note

RHN Proxy Server does not support kickstart provisioning on multi-homed network topologies. Kickstarts will not function properly on a Proxy server that has more than one network interface.