By now, we will have all the patches downloaded to the SCR server; now, we need a mechanism to make them available to the managed machines when they need them for installation.
We can configure a web server to distribute the patches from the SCR repository.
As discussed in the introduction, we can distribute the patches over HTTP/HTTPS; we will configure the Apache web server such that the folder containing patches (/opt/vcmpatches
) will be available over HTTP. We will make the necessary changes in the VCM server to instruct the Linux/Unix machines to download patches according to our web server configuration.
As you have already registered your SCR server with the RedHat network, which is a prerequisite for downloading RHEL 7 patches, you have a repository ready to install Apache.
Security-Enhanced Linux
(
SELinux) should be disabled or configured such that we can connect on port 80
or 443
.
If you are not aware how this can be achieved, have a look at the following...