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Red Hat Network

Red Hat Network is an easy to use systems management platform for your Linux infrastructure. It provides administrators with the tools to efficiently manage the systems on their network. It also features a modular design--as networks grow, administrators can add enhanced capabilities for system updates, management, and provisioning of their entire infrastructure. Red Hat Network can help your organization increase productivity, lower costs, and enhance security.

Update - Makes it easy to keep your Red Hat systems up-to-date

Manage - Increase management capabilities while lowering deployment, and management costs

Provision - Manage the complete life cycle of your Linux infrastructure

Red Hat Update Module

The Red Hat Network Update Module, included with all subscriptions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is the entry level offering from Red Hat Network. It allows you to easily manage and update a single system, and to ensure timely access to updates from Red Hat.

  • Get updates directly and immediately from Red Hat, avoiding the wait and cost of other solutions
  • Quickly, efficiently, and automatically update your systems from our intuitive GUI
  • Ensure your systems are always updated with the latest security and functionality patches.

Network Updates include the following functionality:

  • Simple Web user interface
  • Priority email notification
  • Errata information
  • RPM dependency checking

Red Hat Network Management Module

The Management Module allows for increased management capabilities and scalability of Linux deployments in your enterprise. The Management Module features all the capabilities of the Update Module, plus the functionality needed to help your agency or department lower costs and increase productivity immediately. The Management Module allows you to:

  • Group systems together for easier administration. Automate formerly manual tasks
  • Manage more systems per sys admin, schedule your updates for optimal times, and efficiently search for systems and packages
  • Develop custom channels, define role-based permissions and policies, and utilize RHN's API access layer.

Network Management includes the following functionality:

  • Systems grouping
  • Systems permissions
  • Scheduled actions
  • System search
  • Package profile comparison tools

Enhanced features including custom channels, local package caching, single port access, local database repository, channel cloning and management tools, channel permissions, errata cloning and management, and complete off-network capability are available when you upgrade to Proxy and Satellite architectures.

Installation of the Management Module takes only minutes when you register your systems with RHN. For customers wishing to run Proxy and Satellite, a half day to a full day may be required to complete the install. For customers wishing to optimize their Satellite deployment and receive in-depth training, consulting packages are available for on-site optimization and tutorials.

Red Hat Network Provisioning Module

The Provisioning Module enables you to:

  • Manage the complete life cycle of your Linux infrastructure
  • Deploy, configure, manage, update, and then re-deploy your Linux systems, all from a single GUI console complete with all the necessary enterprise functionality and controls.

Network Provisioning includes the following functionality:

  • Bare metal provisioning
  • Existing state provisioning
  • Multi-state rollback (includes snapshot based recovery)
  • Configuration management
  • RPM based application provisioning
  • Kickstart configuration writer

When you upgrade to Satellite, you also get enhanced features including bare metal PXE boot provisioning, integrated network install tree, and configuration management profiles.

Installation of the Provisioning Module takes only minutes when you register your systems with RHN. For customers wishing to run Proxy and Satellite, a half day to a full day may be required to complete the install. For customers wishing to optimize their Satellite deployment and receive in-depth training, consulting packages are available for on-site optimization and tutorials.

 

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