Manual NSP RHEL OS installation

Overview

Purpose

This section describes the manual rollout of a RHEL OS instance for use in an NSP deployment.

Contents

Overview

Manually installing the RHEL OS for the NSP

Workflow for manual NSP RHEL OS installation

Required RHEL OS packages for NSP container elements

Required RHEL OS packages for ancillary NSP components

RHEL OS packages to remove from NSP container elements

RHEL OS packages to remove from ancillary components

Special OS requirements

Required additional OS packages, NFM-P single-user client or client delegate server

Optional RHEL OS packages

To apply the RHEL 8 swappiness workaround

To lock the RHEL OS version

To verify the rngd service startup

To enable the NSP crypto-policy function on a manually installed RHEL OS

To set the default Python version

To create the nsp user on a manually installed NSP cluster RHEL OS

To disable the RHEL firewalld service

To set the default umask to 0027

To disable RHEL user namespaces