> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rhelv5-list- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) > Sent: 29 January 2009 22:07 > To: 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list' > Subject: [rhelv5-list] RE: satellite/spacewalk server > > > No, Satellite is a separate product and is not packaged with RHEL. > Having said that, spacewalk is in the process of being included in > Fedora (but this may take a while). Draw your own conclusions from > this. > > Yes, it is possible to manage RHEL systems with spacewalk however for > spacewalk to directly talk to *.rhn.redhat.com you'll need to obtain > (read as 'buy') a satellite certificate. This certificate will tell > spacewalk/satellite what your RHEL entitlements are. I'm guessing > though that if you want to manage Fedora/Centos/WhiteBox etc machines > that you'll need management and provisioning entitlements for these > machines also. > > If you go spacewalk there are (legal) ways to pull down the RHEL > updates (if you have relevant subscriptions) but you won't get the > associated errata info which is very useful. > > For more info subscribe to the rhn-satellite mailing list or ask on > #rhn-satellite on irc.freenode.net > > Hope this helps. > > CC
Thanks CC, Im gonna setup a virtual Centos5 box and just install RHN Proxy on it and see if it serves our needs. RH Satellite is too expensive so hopefully RHN Proxy will be enough. Cheers, Nick . _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
