[ale] Using RHN Satellite to deploy a standard firewall: recommendations?

[Beddingfield, Allen]

I'm using SUSE Manager, which is  SUSE's rebuild of Spacewalk (the open source version of Satellite).  You could just push out a /etc/sysconfig/iptables file with a config channel, then follow that with a remote execution script to do "service iptables restart"
Or, you could just do the remote execution script to pull down a copy of the iptables file from somewhere and do the restart.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
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The University of Alabama

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of James Sumners [james.sumners at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 11:44 AM
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Subject: [ale] Using RHN Satellite to deploy a standard firewall:       recommendations?

I'm just getting Satellite up and running for the first time. I'm
already using the "Configuration Channels" to deploy some standard
stuff like /etc/skel/.bashrc. I'm thinking that would be the easiest
way to deploy standard firewall scripts, but I wanted to get some
experienced opinions first. So, do any of you use Satellite? If so, do
you use it to deploy firewall scripts?

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