Red Hat Network (abbreviated to RHN ) is a family of systems-management services operated by Red Hat . RHN makes updates, patches , and bug fixes of packages included within Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux available to subscribers. Other available features include the deployment of custom content to, and the provisioning, configuration, reporting, monitoring of client systems.
5-433: RHN could mean: Red Hat Network , a software update service for Red Hat Linux Northern Rhodesia , an historical territory in south central Africa Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title RHN . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-532: A site allows machines to securely download updates locally. Advanced lifecycle management ; provisioning features, like bare metal PXE boot provisioning; and monitoring features (e.g. centralized CPU and disk usage) cannot be done over the Internet to the hosted RHN servers. These features require a RHN Satellite Server running locally. As of December 2009 the RHN Proxy Server costs $ 2,500 annually, and
15-483: The up2date or yum program to download and install updates from RHN. The updates portion of RHN is akin to other types of automatic system maintenance tools such as Microsoft Update for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The system requires a subscription to allow access to updates. On June 18, 2008, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following
20-464: The Fedora/RHEL model. Subsequently, project Spacewalk was launched. In the basic subscription model the information about a managed host is stored on Red Hat's servers, and updates get downloaded directly from those servers as well. For an organization that manages multiple machines this is inefficient bandwidth-wise. Red Hat offers a proxy server (Red Hat Network Proxy) that once installed at
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