{"id":125,"date":"2004-05-08T02:37:47","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T07:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=125"},"modified":"2004-05-08T02:37:47","modified_gmt":"2004-05-08T07:37:47","slug":"red-hatfedora-meetup-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/08\/red-hatfedora-meetup-for-may","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat\/Fedora Meetup for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our second Red Hat\/Fedora Meetup, here in Melbourne. This time it was spiced up by the fact that Richard Keech, the CTA at Red Hat, talked about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/software\/rhn\/architecture\/\">Red Hat Network Satellite<\/a>, afterwhich we all went for some dinner at an expensive restaurant! Some interesting facts (no slides, so just read my notes):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest amount of hosts for the RHN Satellite network would be around 10,000 hosts &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/pdf\/oracle\/Deploying_Oracle9ionRHEL3_whitepaper.pdf\">reference<\/a> points to AOL, among others.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rhn.redhat.com\">Red Hat Network<\/a> itself has over a million hosts.<\/li>\n<li>The provisioning feature allows kickstart styled installs &#8211; this means that details can be kept on the satellite server. You&#8217;re also allowed to compare systems &#8211; say between the reference system and many unknown systems (<i>aside: we&#8217;ve done this manually with SystemImager, for a golden child, and about 20 clients before<\/i>). There is support for revision control too, so rolling back an entire system to a totally different state is allowed.<\/li>\n<li>It allows you to have your own rolled RPMs too, so you don&#8217;t only have to pull from RH. Oracle is embedded with this, in one 230MB RPM &#8211; yes, you need the database to work with the Satellite network.<\/li>\n<li>It only runs on RH AS 2.1, and not the newer releases. The product being: &#8220;RHN Management Satellite (3.2) for AS 2.1&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there was a bit about the RH Desktop (RHD) solution. The fact that there&#8217;s licensed Agfa fonts, with one nearly equivalent to the MS font Arial, providing easy migration. Citrix client, Acrobat Reader, Flash, Real Media, IBM Java2\/SDK as well. RHD is basically RHEL3 version 2.<\/p>\n<p>All this got me thinking however. Since the API&#8217;s for this are published (mostly?), and it does make use of XMLRPC, and the system is defintely a nice looking one, why haven&#8217;t the bored folk out there looking for a project, write another RHN? <\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrh-up2date.org\/index.html\">NRH-up2date<\/a> which seems to already do basically this&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Red%20Hat%2FFedora%20Meetup%20for%20May&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2F08%2Fred-hatfedora-meetup-for-may&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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