This is slightly off topic, and may just be tossing red meat to y'all, but here goes:
My boss has RedHat coming in on Tuesday to give a spiel on RHN Satellite. I'm dubious, as it seems mostly like a web UI wrapped around a Yum repository system and a half-baked configuration management system. I'm of the opinion that our time and money would be better spent getting off of RHN for package distribution, setting up our own Yum repositories, getting a good start on Puppet, and bringing in Luke Kanies for a week to bring the Puppet installation to up to snuff. FWIW, we'll be looking about 50 systems that need to be managed, and we may not have to pay for server itself ($13.5K) just for the system subscriptions ($200 each). Does anyone here have recent experience with RHN Satellite, and care to comment on its usefulness and functionality? Or on its shortcoming and pitfalls? My Google searches aren't turning up any useful reviews. I'd like to be in a position to ask some semi- informed questions. ALSO: it would be great if there's anyone in the Washington DC area that could come in to give a pitch for Puppet. I did some work with Puppet at my last job (up until three months ago), and I've been a proponent of it my current gig, but my experience isn't really deep enough to make the case. Thanks for any opinions you can provide. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Burkholder pburkhol...@pobox.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
