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Yes, included in every Red Hat subscription offering is the Hosted Version of RHN Update Entitlement. Customers wishing to move to another architecture such as Proxy or Satellite Server, or wishing to upgrade their services to Management or Provisioning Entitlements will have to make additional purchases.
Connecting to Red Hat Network is easy - all you need is an active subscription. Follow these simple steps to activate your subscription.
As mentioned above, the RHN Update Entitlement is included in every Red Hat product offering. Customers wishing to purchase Management or Provisioning Entitlements can do so by bundling them in with their original purchase of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or by purchasing additional entitlements at the RHN store.
Customers wishing to purchase Proxy or Satellite Servers, or who wish to purchase large volumes of RHN Entitlements, should contact their sales representative or complete the contact sales form.
Red Hat Network Management Entitlements are priced at $96 per system annually.
The purchase of the RHN Proxy Server includes the following:
The purchase of the RHN Satellite Server includes the following:
Please note that all hardware must be supplied by the customer and that no physical media is provided. All ISOs and documentation are electronically provided.
For RHN service entitlements (Update, Management, and Provisioning), customers receive the same Service Level Agreement as they currently subscribe to for the operating system.
For Proxy and Satellite Servers, these offerings include a subscription to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Premium, which ensures that customers receive Red Hat Premium support.
The best place to find the technical direction of RHN is to learn more about our Open Source Architecture. Red Hat Network is dedicated to serving as the management backplane for the OSA and making your entire Open Source solution set easily deployable, scalable, and manageable.
Please view Red Hat Network Technical Requirements
Yes. Please view the API Access Layer documentation. All of Red Hat's API calls are XML-RPC based. View a complete list of API calls. Please note that this is only a preliminary list and Red Hat is planning on having a complete set of APIs available with the next release of Red Hat Network (scheduled before end of year 2004). Red Hat will then continue to aggregate requests for APIs from customers and provide new APIs with each subsequent release.
This can be a very open ended question, so we have included a number of ways to answer that.
From a features perspective, Red Hat Network offers administrators the ability to implement a full audit trail of all activities taken through Red Hat Network, as well as assign policies and permissions for simple role based administration. View a complete list of RHN features and functionality.
From the network side, Red Hat Network ensures safe and secure communications. The communication method between Client and Server is always client initiated, and all communication is SSL based, encrypted using GPG. In addition, customers looking to reduce their exposure to the Internet can use the Proxy and/or Satellite architectural model. For more information, please see our Architectural Model Security Overview.
For questions regarding data privacy, Red Hat invites you to read the Red Hat Network Privacy Policy.
Yes, RHN is capable of allowing you to provision, manage, and update using third party and custom content. To do this, customers must be using Proxy and/or Satellite architecture, and the content must be packaged in RPM format consistent with the RPM version(s) that Red Hat Network uses. To facilitate this process, RHN provides Package Management tools.
Many customers enjoy the ability to stage their environments (usually development, QA, and production - and others as customer desires). This gives customers the ability to control the flow of content through the various stages (and departments) of its deployment, complete with policies and permissions for each of the stage. The main feature used here are channel and errata cloning.
Yes - all documentation can be found online.