PAIN. PAIN.
PAIN. That's my experience with RHN Satellite server. PAIN. On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > 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/ > > > > > -- Michael T. Halligan http://www.datacenterjunkie.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
