Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager - GA Announcement

[Bryan Yeung]

Dearest Partners,

*Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager General Availability Announcement*


Red Hat announced today the general availability of Red Hat Subscription 
Asset Manager 1.0. Unveiled as a Beta program two months ago, Red Hat 
Subscription Asset Manager (SAM) *is *an application which is *available 
as part of your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. SAM is designed 
to manage those Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems which are configured 
with certificate-based entitlements.*


Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager is an on-premise, subscription 
management application and is a key way for customers to manage their 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions while leveraging the new 
certificate-based entitlement capability that Red Hat now delivers. SAM 
serves as a tool to support corporate policies for subscription 
management, and enhances control and compliance through visibility and 
reporting. Specifically, SAM serves as a “content gateway” or “proxy 
server” to deliver updated content to end systems. While SAM is not a 
standalone product, it represents functionality that will ship alongside 
future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.


Specific customer benefits for SAM include:

  *

    Generate reports centrally on Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription
    usage, including all the details for a customer environment.

  *

    Retrieves detailed subscription information for individual systems,
    including SLA information.

  *

    Provides fine-grained control over the Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    minor releases for individual servers.

  *

    Enables machines with no connectivity outside of a customer’s data
    center to receive updates via a content proxy and information about
    their subscriptions.

  *

    Enables automated assignment of a subscription to a system when a
    system is provisioned by third-party tools. Note: An administrator
    can configure Activation Keys for this purpose.

Note: A dedicated server, i.e., one additional virtual guest or a 
physical server of Red Hat Enterprise Linux6.2 (or greater) on x86-64 is 
required to run the SAM solution (SAM is not supported on Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux5).


Should you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me at 
90320938.

cheers,

Bryan Yeung
Red Hat Ltd
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