[rhn-users] seeing boxes under the satellite on the hosted site

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Michael,

Michael Barrett wrote:
> For me, I don't care if red hat see my stuff.  I'm trying to off set my 
> IT costs by partnering with my vendor (red hat) through their hosted 
> site.  I use the satellite simply because I don;t want all my hosts 
> connected to the internet

Your hosts would need to be connected to the internet such that the RHN 
public servers would be able to access them. Otherwise the webui would 
be look but don't touch. How could a public server without access to 
your internal hosts be able to deploy packages on them?

If you wanted actions to be ferried through an intermediary server I 
suppose you could register your systems to rhn.redhat.com via an RHN 
Proxy. Satellite doesn't do this, though.

> and I'd like to have a local repository of 
> custom patch sets and content.

Why? What would the function of this local repository be if the patch 
sets and content would be coming via rhn.redhat.com?

> Thus I'd like my satellites to be able 
> to tell the hosted whats under them.  I agree other my not like that, so 
> it of course would need to be configurable.

I guess I'm still not completely understanding your use case for wanting 
to do this. Is there some problem preventing you from using the 
Satellite webui? I am not sure why you would prefer to visit 
rhn.redhat.com rather than your Satellite's webui? What advantage are 
you gaining there?

~m