We needed more visibility into, and

standardization of, our Linux environment

Campus site license for RHEL / RHN was

not on the horizon two years ago

Our plant was (and still is) almost entirely

CentOS (as opposed to licensed RHEL)

Inventory of Linux servers and their patch

levels

Ability to automate the patching of arbitrary

groupings of Linux servers

Ability to easily identify status of servers

vis a vis security errata

Inventory of Linux servers and their patch

levels

Ability to automate the patching of arbitrary

groupings of Linux servers

Ability to easily identify status of servers

vis a vis security errata

Inventory of Linux servers and their patch

levels

Ability to automate the patching of arbitrary

groupings of Linux servers

Ability to easily identify status of servers

vis a vis security errata

Ability to easily identify when servers need

rebooting (due to relevant errata)

Ability to schedule "events" (RPM

installs, updates, reboots) to individual or

groups of servers

Ability to easily track the status of all

events (pending, failed, completed)

Ability to easily identify when servers need

rebooting (due to relevant errata)

Ability to schedule "events" (RPM

installs, updates, reboots) to individual or

groups of servers

Ability to easily track the status of all

events (pending, failed, completed)

Ability to easily identify when servers need

rebooting (due to relevant errata)

Ability to schedule "events" (RPM

installs, updates, reboots) to individual or

groups of servers

Ability to easily track the status of all

events (pending, failed, completed)

Ability to monitor changes to key files

deployed across the plant, along with

versioning support

Ability to run arbitrary commands / scripts

against arbitrary groups of servers (either

scheduled or "immediately")

Ability to monitor changes to key files

deployed across the plant, along with

versioning support

Ability to run arbitrary commands / scripts

against arbitrary groups of servers (either

scheduled or "immediately")

Custom channels for management and

deployment of locally packaged RPMs

Ability to monitor various "server health"

metrics

Ability to easily provision new servers with

proper channel subscriptions and base

configuration profiles

Custom channels for management and

deployment of locally packaged RPMs

Ability to monitor various "server health"

metrics

Ability to easily provision new servers with

proper channel subscriptions and base

configuration profiles

Custom channels for management and

deployment of locally packaged RPMs

Ability to monitor various "server health"

metrics

Ability to easily provision new servers with

proper channel subscriptions and base

configuration profiles

User management can use PAM

integration with, for instance, Active

Directory

OpenSCAP compatible audit scans are

built in

Overall comparison: spacewalk vs.

satellite

User management can use PAM

integration with, for instance, Active

Directory

OpenSCAP compatible audit scans are

built in

Overall comparison: spacewalk vs.

satellite

User management can use PAM

integration with, for instance, Active

Directory

OpenSCAP compatible audit scans are

built in

Overall comparison: spacewalk vs.

satellite

http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare