FW: [rhn-users] Package installer

[Shadd Gallegos]

If you  would like to set up a management server and remotely manage
packages too include bios updates, software, power commands - turning
systems on, off, and resetting I would recommend xCAT it is IBM software
free to the public. xCAT is written in pearl so you can modify it for your
particular applications. It is intended for clustering but can be used for
a variety of admin tasks.

xcat.org

Shadd Gallegos
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                      "Trice Dennis D"                                                                                                 
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 Jim, does this method allow me to log on a master server and push the
patches out to client machines?  Or do I have to log on to each client
and get the patches from the master server(or repository).

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From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Trice, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 2:29 PM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Package installer

Dennis,
   What I do is set up my own yum repository. I set up apache on one
linux box. Copy all the rpm files from the latest base distribution into
the "base"
directory and copy any update rpm files into the update directory. Run
"createrepo ./" from http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate/
in each of the directories to generate the metadata. Install yum on each
of the linux clients and point the /etc/yum.conf to my apache server. I
can either run "yum update" periodically or manually. (note the only
trick to compiling yum was to "make DESTDIR=/") This gives me the
flexibility I need. I can create more than one repo if I want to test
things on development boxes before putting into production or I can
leave out rpms that I know cause trouble. For example, the latest apache
update caused problems for my tomcat servers so I just leave the httpd
update rpm out of my repo.
    Download yum sources from
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.2/.
Jim Trice

> -----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Trice Dennis D
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:55 PM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] Package installer
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> Does Redhat offer a package that allows me to push patches to other
> servers/workstation in my environment?
>
> I thought up2date could handle it but it looks like up2date only does
> pulls.  Where I have to log into each server/workstation and run
> up2date to pull the patches.
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