Spacewalk (http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ ) has been deployed locally by the Fuqua School of Business to manage a Linux server plant of roughly 70 CentOS and Scientific Linux servers. Advantages include GUI "scoreboard" of all servers, central management and scheduling of updates/reboots, server configurations, locally-built packages, and kickstart images. Compliance auditing, service monitoring, and event alerting are also available. Servers can be grouped in multiple and arbitrary ways to meet local needs. Authentication to the interface can be controlled via PAM, and several levels of authorization (roles) can be assigned. The product has enabled more consistent and secure management of scores of diverse servers by less than 1.5 FTE at Fuqua.

2.  We
needed more visibility into, and
standardization of, our Linux environment
 Campus
site license for RHEL / RHN was
not on the horizon two years ago
 Our
plant was (and still is) almost entirely
CentOS (as opposed to licensed RHEL)

3.  Inventory
of Linux servers and their patch
levels
 Ability
to automate the patching of arbitrary
groupings of Linux servers
 Ability
to easily identify status of servers
vis a vis security errata

5.  Inventory
of Linux servers and their patch
levels
 Ability
to automate the patching of arbitrary
groupings of Linux servers
 Ability
to easily identify status of servers
vis a vis security errata

10.  Inventory
of Linux servers and their patch
levels
 Ability
to automate the patching of arbitrary
groupings of Linux servers
 Ability
to easily identify status of servers
vis a vis security errata

12.  Ability
to easily identify when servers need
rebooting (due to relevant errata)
 Ability
to schedule "events" (RPM
installs, updates, reboots) to individual or
groups of servers
 Ability
to easily track the status of all
events (pending, failed, completed)

14.  Ability
to easily identify when servers need
rebooting (due to relevant errata)
 Ability
to schedule "events" (RPM
installs, updates, reboots) to individual or
groups of servers
 Ability
to easily track the status of all
events (pending, failed, completed)

19.  Ability
to easily identify when servers need
rebooting (due to relevant errata)
 Ability
to schedule "events" (RPM
installs, updates, reboots) to individual or
groups of servers
 Ability
to easily track the status of all
events (pending, failed, completed)

23.  Ability
to monitor changes to key files
deployed across the plant, along with
versioning support
 Ability
to run arbitrary commands / scripts
against arbitrary groups of servers (either
scheduled or "immediately")

36.  Ability
to monitor changes to key files
deployed across the plant, along with
versioning support
 Ability
to run arbitrary commands / scripts
against arbitrary groups of servers (either
scheduled or "immediately")

42.  Custom
channels for management and
deployment of locally packaged RPMs
 Ability
to monitor various "server health"
metrics
 Ability
to easily provision new servers with
proper channel subscriptions and base
configuration profiles

46.  Custom
channels for management and
deployment of locally packaged RPMs
 Ability
to monitor various "server health"
metrics
 Ability
to easily provision new servers with
proper channel subscriptions and base
configuration profiles

50.  Custom
channels for management and
deployment of locally packaged RPMs
 Ability
to monitor various "server health"
metrics
 Ability
to easily provision new servers with
proper channel subscriptions and base
configuration profiles

52.  User
management can use PAM
integration with, for instance, Active
Directory
 OpenSCAP
compatible audit scans are
built in
 Overall
satellite
comparison: spacewalk vs.

55.  User
management can use PAM
integration with, for instance, Active
Directory
 OpenSCAP
compatible audit scans are
built in
 Overall
satellite
comparison: spacewalk vs.

58.  User
management can use PAM
integration with, for instance, Active
Directory
 OpenSCAP
compatible audit scans are
built in
 Overall
satellite
comparison: spacewalk vs.

59. http://spacewalk.redhat.com/faq.html#compare