On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:45 -0600, Stanley, Jon wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Sharpe, Sam J > > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:05 AM > > To: Red Hat "Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) Beta releases > > discussion mailing-list > > Subject: Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] yum repositories and RHN Proxy > > > What I do think will become a little blurred is the reasons to buy RHN > > Satellite, which seems to have the major feature of offline use. If I > > wanted to run without a link to RedHat, pre-approve patches > > before they > > are available to users etc., then it would be worth my while > > setting up > > a local Yum mirror... so why would anyone ever buy Satellite? > > That is *one* of the features of Satellite. The base entitlement for a > Satellite conencted system is 'Management', though, so you get > everything that you do in a management entitlement (hands-off errata > scheduling, System Set Manager, etc. > > Towards the bottom of this page is a comparison between Satellite and > hosted RHN (sorry for the marketing content, but it's good): > > https://www.redhat.com/rhn/compare/
Comparing that list with what I know I get from our RHN Proxy (all our systems have Management entitlement by default) the features you get extra with Satellite are: 1) Instant Update (I'm not convinced we don't have this on Proxy - there's a 4 hour checkin time on rhnsd so if you define "Instant" as "within 4 hours" rather than waiting for the client to run "up2date -u", then we have that already. 2) Complete Off Network Capability 3) Local Database Repository For everything else extra you need Provisioning Entitlement (and I think some of those features can be used on Proxy with Provisioning - we can certainly put our RHN Proxies under Configuration Profiles and they are the only machines we have that are Provisioning entitled) -- Sam _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
