[rhn-users] up2date

[Marty Merrick]

Take a look at https://www.redhat.com/software/rhn/table/ for more info
on this. Basically the way a Satellite server works is that it downloads
all the updates for what ever machines/OS's you have subscribed to it.
Your client machines are subscribed to the Satellite server, not
directly to RHN. It's one connection across the net to get all updates
vs. all your machines individually getting their own. There is a cost to
purchase the Satellite server, as well as an additional cost to
subscribe your machines to that server. Cost for the machines depends on
what modules you want, update, management, or provisioning.  The table
in the link above compares each of these as well as comparing
Architectures (Hosted, Proxy, or Satellite). Don't forget you will also
still have to pay the normal subscription fee for each machine. I
*think* that with Satellite server, Red Hat will (maybe for an extra
cost) send you CD's or DVD's of your updates as well. This is for highly
secure installations with no Internet access.

For more and better details call a RH sales rep.

Marty


On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:34 -0700, James Harrison wrote:
> Yup.
> 
> This is a very rough outline:
> 
> Use the server as a machine to download updates.
> 
> You need to setup up2date to keep the RPMS when it exits.
> 
> once you have a repository set up nfs on the server to share out your
> repostitory dir.
> 
> On the workstation machines use yum to get the upates from the nfs share. You
> will need to download yum.
> 
> Good luck
> 
> --- Doctor Khumalo <doctortechie at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how the licensing subscription works for a satellite 
> > server?
> > 
> > I have Linux server that will run Enterprise 4 shortly and behind that 
> > machines lies several workstations (around 50) all off which will need to 
> > get the RPM/kernel updates. Do I have to pay for support for all 50 
> > workstations or can I just set up one satellite server to download the 
> > latest up2date RPM's and then act as a proxy for the workstations?
> > 
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