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List:       infrastructures
Subject:    Re: [Infrastructures] ZenWorks?
From:       Tim Nelson <architect () webalive ! biz>
Date:       2005-03-31 1:09:04
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.60.0503311103290.3546 () tnelson ! webalive ! biz
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Michael T. Halligan wrote:

> I've implemented RHN Satellite Server for a customer of mine, at their 
> request, and we're at the point where we wish we had built our own 
> solution entirely. RedHat's support for this product is non-existant, 
> and they've built their product in such a way that if they break a piece 
> of their closed-source software, you cannot feasibly back that broken 
> rpm out of the satellite server, you're at the mercy of their 
> engineering team to create a fix and put out that new piece of 
> software.. It's turning into a nightmare and we're looking into ZenWorks 
> & Altiris, or just building our own management solution.

 	Just wondering, have you seen:
-	nrh-up2date: http://www.nrh-up2date.org/
-	arpmats: http://arpmats.sourceforge.net/

 	nrh-up2date looks like it could be pushed to do what you want. 
Arpmats (which currently requires cfengine) keeps track of which packages 
belong where.

 	Disclaimer: I'm the lead developer for Arpmats, and have never 
used nrh-up2date.

 	Thanks for the info, though.  Our current solution (with a yum 
repository) isn't 100% what we want, and I was actually considering RHN 
satellite as an option, but I think I'll be going with NRH now :).


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