Mainly the XMLRPC calls are wrapped with a few methods, so that talking to the API from ruby is much easier. It provides an easy way to interact with a RedHat Satellite API. it's not the right solution for all problems or environments.RhnSatellite is a ruby api to the RedHat Satellite There are a few independent white-papers that have been published on the cost-savings you can realize by using Satellite, but. But for the size of my shop, it was a "no brainer" to use Satellite as it saved us quite a bit of time not having to reinvent the wheel and the additonal capability Satellite provides us for day-to-day management of our environment is a HUGE time-saver.
If I had less than 40 or 50 hosts, I might get creative and try to figure out an alternative.
And for the adventurous - there is Puppet and from what I gathered at Summit this year, Puppet will be integrated with RHN Satellite 6.x.Īgain - it really depends on your environment. There are other 3rd-party supported patch management solutions available, but I have never had a need to look outside of Satellite. Satellite is not the most complicated environment to build or manage, but I feel that you could possibly miss out on a lot of the benefits and would have to invest more time to reach the same goal.Īs far as I know - Satellite (more specifically the Satellite subscription) is the only way to get the Red Hat repo data and packages (aka "connect with RHN") to build RHN repos locally for distribution. Personal word of advice: if you decide that Satellite is a solution that will meet your needs I highly recommend either engaging Red Hat consulting, or taking the course (or both). You can request a Satellite evaluation (or check out ). I guess to accurately answer your question, we would need to ask a few more questions about what your specific requirements are. 5.5 is the current version (I believe) - and 6.x sounds like it will also be a tremendous product. Satellite is capable of distributing files, managing configurations, scheduling tasks, reporting status. You can also build your own repos to manage via Satellite. Satellite contains multiple Red Hat repositories specific to a release. Based on what you have described Satellite sounds like the most capable option.
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