I can second what Ray has mentioned. It's a bit more tedious to set everything up initially - but once it's all done, it works well. I'm almost complete with my spacewalk setup. I will post a detailed guide in the near future, since I'm documenting it for my employer anyway and need to abstract proprietary info.
-----Original Message----- From: rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:rhelv5-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ray Van Dolson Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:39 PM To: rhelv5-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Patch/RPM Management of RHEL5 servers On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:27:39AM -0700, Jagga Soorma wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I currently manage all patching (and rpm installs) of RHEL 5 servers > via our internal RHN Satellite server. However, due to funding and > other reasons, we are trying to save $$ and would prefer not to > purchase management licenses for our RHN Satellite server. I was > wondering how other folks out there are managing their RHEL servers? > > What I am thinking of doing is only having a few licenses for my > Satellite server and then using reposync to create manual repositories > on a physical server (by extracting the rpms from RHN channels on our > internal satellite) and have the clients register to these > repositories instead of the satellite server. This way I would have > the same patches and cut on the cost of purchasing management licenses > for our Satellite server. Do you see any downside to this approach? > Are others doing something similar? I have a growing environment of about > 500 RHEL servers. > > Also, I only use the internal RHN Satellite server for patching and > nothing else (no provisioning, kickstart files etc - done elsewhere). > > Thanks in advance for your assistance, What you describe will work, but why not just ditch Satellite entirely then and reposync against RHN directly? As long as you're paying for your entitlements for each RHEL instance I think you should be good (but recommend you check w/ your account rep first of course). Alternaetly you could also do the reposync/mrepo thing against RHN and then slurp it up into Spacewalk and register your RHEL hosts there. This would give you a near-Satellite experience sans support[1] Ray [1] Note I'm not 100% sure you *can* register RHEL hosts to Spacewalk. I think you can... _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
