Workflow for manual NSP RHEL OS installation
Purpose
The following is the sequence of high-level actions required to install an instance of the RHEL OS for use in an NSP system.
Stages
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Using the RHEL installer, choose “Minimal Install” as the Software Selection for the OS. |
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Prevent the accidental deployment of an unsupported RHEL version, perform To lock the RHEL OS version. |
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Install the required OS package set.
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Remove specific OS packages that are installed by default but not required.
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Perform any additional package configuration described in Special OS requirements, as required. |
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If required, add the packages listed in Required additional OS packages, NFM-P single-user client or client delegate server. |
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Perform To apply the RHEL 8 swappiness workaround to resolve the RHEL swappiness issue. |
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If FIPS is not enabled at the OS level, perform To verify the rngd service startup to ensure that the RHEL rngd service is loaded and running. |
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Perform To enable the NSP crypto-policy function on a manually installed RHEL OS to secure the OS using a RHEL crypto-policy setting. Note: You must enable the crypto-policy function before you attempt to install any NSP software on a station. |
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Perform To set the default Python version to configure the default Python language version to the version required by the NSP. |
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On an NSP deployer host or NSP cluster station, perform To create the nsp user on a manually installed NSP cluster RHEL OS to create the RHEL nsp user. |
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Perform To disable the RHEL firewalld service to ensure that the RHEL firewalld service is inactive during NSP component deployment. |
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Optionally, for greater OS security, perform To disable RHEL user namespaces to disable the use of RHEL user namespaces. |