I would argue that a one time effort to get proper repo locally, would be much more efficient than using a tool like RHN Satellite. this way you control the content of your repository. additionally, I would really recommend against having multiple tools managing your systems.
my 2c Ohad On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, PeterBurkholder <pburkhol...@gmail.com>wrote: > > This is slightly off topic, and may just be tossing red meat to y'all, > but here goes: > > My boss has RedHat coming in on Tuesday to give a spiel on RHN > Satellite. I'm dubious, as it seems mostly like a web UI wrapped > around a Yum repository system and a half-baked configuration > management system. I'm of the opinion that our time and money would > be better spent getting off of RHN for package distribution, setting > up our own Yum repositories, getting a good start on Puppet, and > bringing in Luke Kanies for a week to bring the Puppet installation to > up to snuff. FWIW, we'll be looking about 50 systems that need to be > managed, and we may not have to pay for server itself ($13.5K) just > for the system subscriptions ($200 each). > > Does anyone here have recent experience with RHN Satellite, and care > to comment on its usefulness and functionality? Or on its > shortcoming and pitfalls? My Google searches aren't turning up any > useful reviews. I'd like to be in a position to ask some semi- > informed questions. > > ALSO: it would be great if there's anyone in the Washington DC area > that could come in to give a pitch for Puppet. I did some work with > Puppet at my last job (up until three months ago), and I've been a > proponent of it my current gig, but my experience isn't really deep > enough to make the case. > > Thanks for any opinions you can provide. > > Cheers, > > Peter > -- > Peter Burkholder > pburkhol...@pobox.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---