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

[Michael Barrett]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?


It's all about consolidation.  If I could have the freedom and control of
the satellite but also have all my hosts viewable at the hosted, Red Hat
could tell me even more about what I need to know regarding my boxes.
Service contracts, etc.


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