Chapter 6. Connecting your systems to Red Hat Lightspeed

If you are not a Satellite user then you need to either directly communicate to Red Hat Lightspeed or set up a web proxy.

Red Hat Lightspeed proxy provides capabilities and features for securely and efficiently connecting your systems to Red Hat Lightspeed.

To make it simpler and easier for you, Red Hat Lightspeed provides a proxy, which is included with your RHEL subscription. Red Hat Lightspeed proxy routes all Red Hat traffic through the proxy with a config script hosted on the proxy server that you use to configure each host system.

For detailed information about how to install and configure Red Hat Lightspeed proxy, see Connecting your RHEL systems through the Red Hat Lightspeed proxy.

You might choose to use a web proxy of your choice to act as a gateway between the public Internet and your private network, and configure a web config file on each host. This is a good security measure to protect your systems from malicious activity.

To connect your systems to Red Hat Lightspeed you must add hostnames, ports, and allow additional URLs. For guidance about how to connect to Red Hat Lightspeed by using your own proxy, see Connecting to Red Hat Lightspeed through your own proxy.