Re: Provisioning from a RH Proxy server

Yes - this *should* be possible, using RHN Proxy 4.1 or newer.

Basically make the url format:

http://proxyserver/kickstart/dist/ks-rhel-xx

The proxy will forward to request to the Satellite and everything 
proceeds through the Proxy

Cliff

Lamon, Frank III wrote:
>  Can new servers be provisioned from RH Proxy like they can from 
> Satellite? We are going to set up Proxy for some remote locations to 
> feed from our Satellite server and I was wondering if we’ll be able to 
> do remote installs off of those Proxy servers. We usually point to the 
> distro location on the Satellite server with a kickstart file (Ex. "url 
> –url
> 
> http://satserver.fqdn/kickstart/dist/ks-rhel-i386-es-4-u5") and pull the 
> pkgs straight from there, but I’m not sure if this possible with Proxy.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Frank
> 
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