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Chapter 4. Connecting to Red Hat Lightspeed through your own proxy

You might choose to use your own proxy to act as a gateway between the public Internet and your private network. 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.

Note

If you are a Red Hat Satellite user, no proxy is required because Satellite serves as a proxy itself. For more information, see: How to configure Red Hat Satellite 6 with proxy server.

To connect to Red Hat Lightspeed, you must include specific hostnames and ports on your proxy’s outgoing network.

Prerequisites

  • You have at least one active Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription.
  • You are logged in to the system as root or have sudo permissions.
  • Your system is registered with Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM).

Procedure

  1. Navigate to your outgoing network configuration and add the following addresses and ports: 

    https://cert-api.access.redhat.com:443
     
    https://cert.cloud.redhat.com:443
     
    https://cert.console.redhat.com:443

  2. Add the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console URL so that you can manage your account and hosts in the Red Hat Lightspeed Web UI: 

    https://console.redhat.com:443

  3. Add the URL for Single-Sign-On to Red Hat to allow access to authorization: 

    https://sso.redhat.com:443

For each host that uses your proxy, add the following details the /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file:

Note

This information is required for RHSM, insights-client and remote host configuration (rhc).

  1. Add your HTTP proxy server’s URL: 

    proxy_hostname =

  2. Add the proxy scheme to allow authorization. HTTP is the default: 

    proxy_scheme = http

  3. Add the port for your proxy server: 

    proxy_port =

  4. Optional: If your proxy requires authentication, add your user name and password: 

    proxy_user =
     
    proxy_password =

  5. Add any domains that you want to opt out from the proxy: 

    no_proxy =

  6. Optional: Edit the insights-client.conf configuration file to change the proxy. By default, insights-client uses RHSM’s configuration for a proxy. 

    /etc/insights-client/insights-client.conf

Verification

  • Open your command line interface (CLI) and run the following command as root: 

    [root@server ~]# insights-client --test-connection --net-debug

  • If connectivity is successful, you will see the following output in your CLI: 

    End API URL Connection Test: SUCCESS

Connectivity tests completed successfully
See `/var/log/insights-client/insights-client.log` for more details.

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