[Spacewalk-list] Do you have a brief that shows why you want satellite over just using rhn?

[Cliff Perry]

Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> On 01/07/2011 12:05 AM, Colin Coe wrote:
>> - allows you to manage configuration files
> RHN allows you to manage configuration files if you have provisioning
> entitlements IIRC
> 
>> - allows you to build/rebuild nodes (maybe this can be done with RHN
>> but would be way quicker if the content is local)
> No, RHN could not provision systems.
> 
>> - allows you to do system monitoring (maybe this can be done with RHN)
> No, RHN could not monitor systems.
> 
> I would add - Satellite can:
> - have osad - all actions are instantly pushed to clients
> - you can manage users and organizations on your own
> - maintance window - you are able to download rpm and erratas to client
> in advance prior the scheduled action, so install/upgrade is much faster
> - you see timedate when rpm have been installed
> - you can manage selinux context of config files
> 
> Additionally in Spacewalk you can:
> - audit selinux
> 
> And I probably forgot some others features.
> 

A much much larger set of API's are available in Spacewalk & Satellite 
vs RHN.

Cliff