On 7 Oct 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Riku Meskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anybody know if there exist a project(s) or effort(s)
> > to create a proper centralized management system for Linux?
>
> Red Hat Network, http://rhn.redhat.com, is targeted at
> exactly this.
>
Hummm... Yes I have heard¹ about it and I thought
that someone would propably bring it up at least
as a plug :)
¹) went down to it now and spent some time reading
documentation.
I have tried up2date when it was still free and have
some kind of experience about it. I think it works
for the problem, updating and maintainding individual
hosts, but before you commit the problem solved when
the question is about little larger scale environments
think about following issues, please.
- I don't have any doubts that very small companies
have problems outsourcing the MGMT-station side,
but would you believe that many as example take
big companies, research labs, like Telecoms vendors,
Telcos, etc. around the world would trust anybody else
but themselves on managment of the MGMT-station
(rhn-service in this case) in their sole hands.
I don't think they like the idea that someone else
knows has exact information what they are running and
where.
AFAIK the server-side of the RHN is Red Hat
proprietary and cannot be downloaded or purchaced
or can it? Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
- Therefore IHMO RHN is merely a one vendor subscription
service (HP & Sun has this too) that has limited use
when all the systems are directly or via proxy
connected to Internet and the ordinary security
measures apply.
However there are large Intranets that have very
limited or no connection to Internet at all. The
idea that each and every system needs to connect
to internet and get packages from repository outside
company facilities won't work and is often strictly
not allowed (bandwith and security considerations).
- I tried to find information how, reading RHN
doc pages, how the configuration file management
if there is that done. I would like to hear more
about it. Where this information can be found?
- Defining the host in classes and forcing policies,
software packages, removing packages, etc. ?
- How about, reporting, logs, big-picture views,
class management not just managing individual
hosts etc. ?
Any pointers or whitepapers about how RHN operates
and what is publicly available would be nice to read.
HTH,
:-) riku
ps. RHN site seem to have at the moment some
problems, I get "Connection failed" from
rhn.redhat.com:443 all the time :(
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