Mark Post wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2007 at 10:56 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Smith III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A friend asks what's the easiest way to apply updates to multiple z/Linux
servers.
Aduva isn't an option for political reasons (they had a bad experience with
Aduva before). What's the conventional wisdom here?
The easiest? That's hard to say. Both Novell and Red Hat provide
distribution-specific tools to do this: rug and up2date. It's not very hard at
all to set up a YUM repository, and point the respective tool at that on each
system. Or, you can spend more money and get things like ZenWorks for Linux
Management, or RHN Proxy/Satellite. Those will get you a lot more
functionality than just the install piece.
RHEL5 has yum, not up2date.
With yum repos, you can create your own content of approved packages,
and configure clients (if you so choose) to blindly update when updates
are available.
I've always abhorred the idea of blindly installing updates, ever since
RH invented RHN back around the time of RHL 7.x. However, trusting one's
own QA is different from trusting the vendor's.
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John
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