PeterBurkholder <pburkhol...@gmail.com> writes: > 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).
After spending a completely unproductive six months trying to get the Satellite to work for us, we did pretty much exactly what you said above and had considerably more success. In our experience, the Satellite is buggy, limited, and opaque, and basically unsupported by Red Hat in any meaningful way. (I think the icing on that cake was when the Red Hat on-site engineer proved incapable of installing his own product.) I do, however, know other people who have had considerably better luck with it and swear by it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
