[Spacewalk-list] Do you have a brief that shows why you want satellite over just using rhn?

[Thomas von Steiger]

On 07.01.2011, at 14:53, Cliff Perry wrote:

> Miroslav Suchý wrote:
>> On 01/07/2011 12:05 AM, Colin Coe wrote:
>>> - allows you to manage configuration files
>> RHN allows you to manage configuration files if you have provisioning
>> entitlements IIRC
>>> - allows you to build/rebuild nodes (maybe this can be done with RHN
>>> but would be way quicker if the content is local)
>> No, RHN could not provision systems.
>>> - allows you to do system monitoring (maybe this can be done with RHN)
>> No, RHN could not monitor systems.
>> I would add - Satellite can:
>> - have osad - all actions are instantly pushed to clients
>> - you can manage users and organizations on your own
>> - maintance window - you are able to download rpm and erratas to client
>> in advance prior the scheduled action, so install/upgrade is much faster
>> - you see timedate when rpm have been installed
>> - you can manage selinux context of config files
>> Additionally in Spacewalk you can:
>> - audit selinux
>> And I probably forgot some others features.
> 
> A much much larger set of API's are available in Spacewalk & Satellite vs RHN.
> 

On rhn you can not create custom channels like clone channels from the orginial redhat channels.

Thomas