Satellite 6 Accelerator

The Situation

Multiple RHEL servers often grow beyond the capacity for local management. Lack of consolidated management creates inconsistent patching and introduces risk which creates liabilities. Satellite 6 Accelerator will pull all your RHEL nodes into accountability and enable you to push consistent and auditable management policies that satisfy all corporate security and governance SLAs.

Like many IT organizations whose Red Hat Enterprise LINUX estate has grown over the years the management of software updates and security patches has become time consuming and leaves your systems exposed to a possible security breach. It is common for servers to be configured manually or with patchwork of homegrown tools, which makes it impossible to have a single reliable patch & errata management strategy.

Companies experiencing lack of centralized patch management find themselves involved in time consuming and inconsistent processes to manage each machine individually, introducing errors, and lack of records for audit and security purposes. Servers that are patched manually can create unscheduled downtime and system outages. Developers and administrators installing RHEL manually can introduce different settings, leading to inconsistent servers that are either missing required software to run applications or are running unauthorized software that gives attackers tools to compromise the system.

Satellite 6 Accelerator Includes:

Satellite 6 Accelerator consolidates Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers into one management platform.

  • Review existing network, compute, and storage resources

  • Document gaps in current RHEL software management strategy

  • Define success criteria

  • Design Satellite 6 implementation plan

  • Install and configure Satellite 6 and Capsule Server

  • Integrate external LDAP source (like Active Directory)

  • Import subscription manifest, configure repositories

  • Install, configure and test capsule servers if required

  • Create organizations, content views, provisioning templates, domains, subnets

  • Test provisioning templates and subscribe existing RHEL clients

  • Develop runbook for future Sat 6 client provisioning

  • Deploy package manifests, provisioning templates, lifecycles, and content views

  • Configure users, roles, SCAP, and audit dashboards

  • Register existing hosts and enable discovery of new hosts

  • Provide knowledge sharing for future customization off Sat 6

  • Document engagement activities, findings, outcome, status, and providing knowledge share in Engagement Journal

  • Provide Engagement Journal to Client Engagement Lead at end of Engagement

  • Review Subscription Manifests, Repos, Provisioning Templates

Business Outcomes: 

Upon successful completion, your organization will have peace of mind through eliminating regulatory and compliance risks due to fragmented server management. Your IT teams will get the patching, updates, and support they need to effectively manage server deployments. Finally, you will reduce the complexity and increase your team’s efficiency by replacing homegrown tools and loose IT policies with a simple automated and integrated RHEL software lifecycle management solution.