[ale] Satellite 6 opinions?

[Scott McBrien]

Yes, you have to have a recent update to supported RHEL versions to be able to register them to Sat6.  RHEL 5.6 is 3 or 4 years old and this dot release is not a maintained entity any longer.

-Scott


> On Oct 17, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Ramesh Nadupalli <nadupalliramesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have learnt from RHN support today that Satellite 6 is not for
> environments that are having RHEL 5.6 or older versions.  You can not
> register them to the satellite.
> I am asking for a workaround so that I can go with Satellite 6.
> Waiting for an answer.
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My understanding is 6 does everything 5 did plus. By dropping the custom
>> code for puppet, the ability to manage multiple, different types of Linux
>> systems emerged.
>> 
>> But, I've not used it yet. I did tinker with Spacewalk (upstream version)
>> while it was still version 5 so 6 is all new for me.
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:01 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anyone have any opinions on Satellite 6 as opposed Satellite 5?
>>> 
>>> I'm using 5 to kickstart systems with hosted kickstart profiles that use a
>>> few kickstart snippets. I also distribute some system agnostic
>>> configurations through a couple configuration channels, serve out local
>>> copies of the EPEL (and other) RPM repositories, and serve out some in-house
>>> RPM repositories.
>>> 
>>> Is 6 capable of these tasks? I assume so, but it's not very clear from the
>>> documentation. All I'm getting out of it is that the product has completely
>>> changed, and is more along the lines of a new interface to Puppet.
>>> 
>>> --
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>>> 
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>>> corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
>>> condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>> 
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