[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.8 - Patching RHEL 6/7 Servers

[P.Cookson at bham.ac.uk]

Good afternoon

I'm currently looking in to options for introducing a single centralised patching solution for both Oracle Linux 6/7 and RHEL 6/7 systems. There are about 100 Oracle Linux servers and 50 RHEL servers. I'm starting with the Spacewalk product and therefore, built a proof of concept environment by installing Spacewalk 2.8 on an Oracle 7 system. Subsequently, I've added channels/repositories for Oracle 6/7 and successfully patched a number of test client systems.
However, I can't seem to obtain clear instructions for how to patch RHEL 6/7 systems using Spacewalk. I believe the functionality of Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk is basically the same but the ability to connect directly to RHN to synchronize software repositories and errata's has been disabled. I've seen some tentative clues that this can be circumvented as well as some reference to using "mrepo" but the latter just seems over complicated really.

Alternatively, if Red Hat Satellite is purchased to patch the RHEL 6/7 servers, has anyone had success with using it to patch Oracle 6/7 servers?

In addition to patching, I also need to investigate their provisioning capabilities too.

Regards
Phil

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