26.0 Promoting an RHEL 6 device as a Content or Collection Role Satellite

To promote an RHEL 6 device as a Content or Collection Role Satellite, the firewall needs to allow communication over the HTTP port. However, due to SELinux policy rules, certain iptables commands such as iptables-save are denied write-access to the iptables configuration, due to which the firewall rules are not enforced.

To promote an RHEL 6 device as a Content or Collection Role Satellite:

  1. Enable the permissive state for the security domain iptables_t using the following command:

    # semanage permissive -a iptables_t

  2. Promote the device to a Content or Collection Role Satellite.

As an alternative workaround, you can also restart the ZENworks Agent service using the following command, before promoting a device to a Content or Collection Role Satellite:

/etc/init.d/novell-zenworks-xplatzmd restart