Red Hat Network
Red Hat Network (abbreviated to RHN) is a family of systems-management services operated by
Users of these
On June 18, 2008, Red Hat
Architecture
In the basic subscription model the information about a managed host is stored on Red Hat's servers, and updates get downloaded directly from those servers as well. For an organization that manages multiple machines this is inefficient bandwidth-wise. Red Hat offers a proxy server (Red Hat Network Proxy) that once installed at a site allows machines to securely download updates locally. Advanced lifecycle management; provisioning features, like bare metal PXE boot provisioning; and monitoring features (e.g. centralized CPU and disk usage) cannot be done over the Internet to the hosted RHN servers. These features require a RHN Satellite Server running locally. As of December 2009[update] the RHN Proxy Server costs $2,500 annually, and the RHN Satellite Server costs $13,500 annually, which includes the license for the embedded Oracle Database.[2][3][4]
History
Date | Version | Description |
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late 2000 | Red Hat Network is born as hosted service. | |
late 2001 | RHN Proxy Server has been created. | |
January 2002 | significant price reduction of RHN.[5] | |
February 2002 | RHN Satellite server created as standalone version of RHN. | |
October 2002 | Red Hat purchased Sunnyvale company and integrate its NOCpulse Command Center systems management software into RHN[6] | |
2004 | RHN 3.2 released | introducing provisioning, Bootstrap Script, Refined Channel Cloning |
Spring 2004 | RHN 3.3 released | |
July 20, 2004 | RHN 3.4 released | |
December 15, 2004 | RHN 3.6 released | introducing Monitoring as technology preview, supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 as base operating system, rhn boostrap utility and push technology (using jabber protocol) |
March 22, 2005 | RHN 3.7 released | |
August 31, 2005 | RHN 4.0 released | |
February 2, 2007 | RHN Satellite 4.2 released[7] | supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 clients |
June 26, 2007 | RHN Satellite 5.0 released[8] | introducing virtualization management support. |
April 7, 2008 | RHN Satellite 5.1 released | Multi-Org feature, Apache 2.0 support, exporter tool, PPC Provisioning Capabilities, 64 bit Platform Support, S390 Platform Support, S390X Platform Support.[9] |
June 18, 2008 | RHN Satellite (and Proxy) is open source'd. Project Spacewalk is born. | |
November 5, 2008 | RHN Satellite 5.2 released[10] | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now supported as a base operating system, introducing Oracle 10g support.[11] |
September 2, 2009 | RHN Satellite 5.3 released | introducing significant upgrade of Multiple Organizations feature, automated system installation via the cobbler, Inter-Satellite Sync, supporting installation as VMWare guest, command line installation of RHN Proxy, SELinux support.[12] |
October 27, 2010 | RHN Satellite 5.4 released | supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients, introducing spacewalk-repo-sync, Duplicate Profile feature, Support for Oracle 11g, package installation date, symbolic links in configuration management and SELinux support for configuration management.[13] |
June 16, 2011 | RHN Satellite 5.4.1 released | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now supported as a base operating system. Internationalized domain names support added.[14] |
September 21, 2012 | RHN Satellite 5.5 released | IPv6 Enablement, OpenSCAP Support, Clone-By-Date Capability, Provisioning Bonded Network Interfaces |
October 1, 2013 | RHN Satellite 5.6 released | Enhanced subscription and system reporting, Client system service analysis, Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) content management and trust refinement, Red Hat Satellite server hot-backups, Automated provisioning in PXE-less environments, Red Hat Satellite server scalability, Choice of external, DBA-managed database |
References
- LinuxWorld.comon June 20, 2008
- ^ "Network Satellite FAQs". Red Hat. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ Gilbertson, Scott (2005-08-10). "What is Red Hat Network?". redhat.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Enterprise Linux management | Compare architectures". Red Hat. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Red Hat Network for the Masses". Slashdot. 2002-01-27. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ Rooney, Paula (2002-10-15). "Red Hat Confirms Acquisition Of NOCpulse". Crn.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Red Hat Network Satellite 4.2.0 Notice". Digipedia.org. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "RHN Satellite and Proxy Server Life Cycle - Red Hat Customer Portal". Access.redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Announcing Red Hat Network Satellite 5.1.0". Permalink.gmane.org. 2008-04-07. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "[rhn-satellite-users] RHN Satellite 5.2 Now Generally Available". Archivum.info. 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Chapter 1. Major Features - Red Hat Customer Portal". Docs.redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Chapter 1. Major Features - Red Hat Customer Portal". Docs.redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Chapter 1. Major Features - Red Hat Customer Portal". Docs.redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
- ^ "Release Notes - Red Hat Customer Portal". Access.redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-13.
External links
- Red Hat Network (login to the hosted RHN application)
- RHN Satellite
- Project Spacewalk