Linux system administration methodology or best practice

[Michael Ward]

Our satellite server downloads all updates from RHN. We can then allocate
updates to various machines throughout our infrastructure for testing. Once
testing is complete, if there are discrepancies, we remove the offending
packages from our updates and push the updates to the production machines at
night.


Michael Ward
Redhat Linux Administrator
Metro State College of Denver
303-352-4225


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:18 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: RE: Linux system administration methodology or best practice

Probably not the cleverest way of doing it, but it works for me:  I've
implemented mrepo, which synchronises updates with RHN.  Then I
configure my servers to point at mrepo for updates.  

You can then make mrepo synch, test the latest updates and update
production servers after testing.  Then synch mrepo to get the next
bunch of updates, test, and deploy to production, etc etc.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shaughnessy, Kevin
Sent: 27 August 2009 22:06
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux system administration methodology or best practice

I am also looking for hands-on advice for Red Hat administration,
specifically regarding updates:
 -  I'd like a sandbox system to apply them, and test them.  Do I have
to buy the same level of support for this "trash able" system? (I've
already ruled out Fedora and CentOS, as I need to maintain compatibility
with EMC PowerPath and Oracle.)
 -  By the time I've evaluated a set of updates, there are new ones, and
yum always pulls the newest.  How do I migrate my 'approved' set from
sandbox to development to production?
 -  How often do you apply updates to your production servers?  Security
updates?

Thanks,


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