Latest Version of Powerful Management Platform Offers Enhanced
Flexibility, Reporting, Content Control, and More
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc., (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Satellite
5.6. This latest version introduces a host of new features and updates,
giving administrators many new capabilities to efficiently manage their
disparate systems, lowering per-system deployment and management costs.
Now, more than ever, systems management requirements are becoming more
complex as a result of increased virtualization and the move towards
cloud computing. Red Hat Satellite helps organizations manage these
complexities and grow their Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms through
powerful management capabilities for system provisioning, patch
management, configuration management, and monitoring. A recent study by
IDC, sponsored by Red Hat, found that the number of Linux servers
managed per admin increased an average of 28 Linux servers per
administrator before to 60 per administrator after the deployment of Red
Hat Satellite, and reduced annual costs of IT infrastructure by nearly
$304,000.1
The latest release of Red Hat Satellite helps users better manage their
Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure through new capabilities,
including better reporting and troubleshooting tools, increased
Satellite flexibility and scaling, improved system availability, and
enhanced content control and synchronization. New features in Red Hat
Satellite 5.6 include:
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Enhanced subscription and system reporting: Red Hat Satellite
5.6 provides incremental levels of reporting which marry existing
subscription views with newer reporting capabilities across
subscription consumption and hardware details.
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Client system service analysis: Red Hat Satellite 5.6 supports
aggregation of error and crash information via integration with the
client-side reporting tool called ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool),
providing a centralized mechanism to collect and analyze system state
information at the time of an application crash on end clients.
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Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) content management and trust refinement: Inter-Satellite
Sync allows one Red Hat Satellite instance to pull content from
another Satellite instance. With this release, users now have the
ability to retain and refine Channel (or repository) access
permissions when syncing from one Satellite to another. Administrators
of each Satellite in a synchronized exchange now have finer control
over access permissions per Satellite, per organization, and, by
extension, per channel.
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Red Hat Satellite server hot-backups: The black box embedded
database back end will exchange Oracle for PostgreSQL, providing the
ability to perform hot-backups when backing up the Satellite server.
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Automated provisioning in PXE-less environments: Cobbler Build
ISO support has been added to Satellite, enabling automated
provisioning in environments without a PXE option via the creation of
custom ISOs.
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Red Hat Satellite server scalability: Red Hat Satellite now has
an installation option for deploying the Satellite admin-managed
(embedded) database on a separate Red Hat Enterprise Linux system,
providing significant scaling without requiring the expertise of a DBA.
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Choice of external, DBA-managed database: Red Hat Satellite 5.6
offers the option of using either a PostgreSQL or Oracle database for
those requiring an external DBA-managed database for scaling,
providing choice , if an external DBA-managed database is required.
Supporting Quotes
Bryan Che, general manager, Cloud, Red Hat
"Automation, standard operating environments, and flexibility are key
for organizations adopting and deploying cloud computing. Red Hat
Satellite makes it possible to manage tens, hundreds, or even thousands
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers easily and thereby frees up
resources to focus on strategic IT initiatives."
Rizvi Rahim, senior solutions architect, Integra Technologies FZE
"Red Hat Satellite is one of the more reliable pieces of software we've
deployed and seems indispensable for setups with a large number of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The Red Hat Satellite 5.6 release looks
fantastic; the long awaited switch to PostgreSQL not only demonstrates
Red Hat's commitment to open source, but also brings in practical
benefits like hot backups and the ability to almost effortlessly split
the database load onto a separate machine. It also provides a
comprehensive view of all software crashes and links related crashes
occurring on multiple servers, which will prove to be extremely useful
in detecting possible issues or regressions. I am really looking forward
to seeing Red Hat Satellite 5.6 in action."
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1 IDC White Paper, sponsored by Red Hat, Linux Management
with Red Hat Satellite: Measuring Business Impact and ROI. August 2013 < https://engage.redhat.com/forms/idc-rhn-satellite >
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