• Red Hat Satellite and Puppet

    Red Hat Satellite and Puppet Welcome to the second of our blog posts for Satellite. The topic this week is the usage of Puppet with Satellite 5 and 6. If you have not yet heard, Red Hat will be using and supporting Puppet as the configuration management platform within Satellite 6. The Puppet integration comes from many years of hands-on feedback and experiences within The Foreman community from users such as yourself. As part of the Satellite 6 release process we had many customer discussions...
    Posted 2014-08-26T14:05:20+00:00 - 1
  • We are working on some great stuff

    The Satellite Engineering Team at Red Hat is working on some really great features, and we are always looking for ways to tell you all more about what is cooking in the upstream. Lukas Zapletal, in our Brno office, suggested that we start a blog to get some of this information out. The goal of this blog will be for us in Engineering to publish tips and tricks about how to use our products, videos which showcase new features, and to point you at new content on the Customer Portal. If you have...
    Posted 2014-08-19T18:18:01+00:00 - 3
  • Fedora Security Team

    Vulnerabilities in software happen.  When they get fixed it's up to the packager to make those fixes available to the systems using the software.  Duplicating much of the response efforts that Red Hat Product Security performs for Red Hat products, the Fedora Security Team (FST) has recently been created to assist packagers get vulnerability fixes downstream in a timely manner. At the beginning of July, there were over 500 vulnerability tickets open* against Fedora and EPEL.  Many of these...
    Posted 2014-08-13T13:30:31+00:00 - 0
  • KVM Bridge Configuration

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: KVM Bridge Configuration By default, KVM uses Network Address Translation (NAT) networking through a libvirt-managed bridge called virbr0. You can use a bridged interface to get your guest box to appear as another host on the same network as the hypervisor. This app is designed to help you configure a bridged network interface for KVM using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or later. You will have two options: 1.Download an all-in-one script...
    Posted 2014-07-29T02:54:23+00:00 - 5
  • Towards efficient security code audits

    Conducting a code review is often a daunting task, especially when the goal is to find security flaws. They can, and usually are, hidden in all parts and levels of the application - from the lowest level coding errors, through unsafe coding constructs, misuse of APIs, to the overall architecture of the application. Size and quality of the codebase, quality of (hopefully) existing documentation and time restrictions are the main complications of the review. It is therefore useful to have a plan...
    Posted 2014-07-16T13:30:44+00:00 - 0
  • Explore certified partner solutions with the new Red Hat Certification Catalog

    Today, we are excited to announce the addition of a new Red Hat Certification Catalog to the numerous resources within the Customer Portal. Red Hat collaborates with hundreds of companies that develop hardware, devices, plug-ins, software applications, and services that are tested, supported, and certified to run on Red Hat technologies. Empowered with the new Red Hat Certification Catalog, you can explore a wide variety of partner solutions to: Ensure your Red Hat solution is running on...
    Posted 2014-07-14T21:00:01+00:00 - 2
  • Red Hat Customer Portal Wins Association of Support Professionals Award

    We're excited to announce that for the fourth consecutive year, the Red Hat Customer Portal has been named one of the industry’s "Ten Best Web Support Sites” by the Association of Support Professionals (ASP). ASP is an international membership organization for customer support managers and professionals. The "Ten Best Web Support Sites" competition is an awards program that showcases excellence in online service and support, and this year we were honored alongside other technology industry...
    Posted 2014-07-14T19:21:28+00:00 - 2
  • Network Bonding Helper

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: Network Bonding Helper. Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind network interface controllers (NICs) together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface known as a bonding (or channel bonding) interface. Bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. This app is designed to help you configure bonding....
    Posted 2014-07-04T01:44:49+00:00 - 0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Upgrade Helper

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: RHEV Upgrade Helper. This app is designed to help you upgrade RHEV to a later version. All you need to provide is information about your upgrade path. We will not only present you the steps to upgrade RHEV, but we'll also give you some extra steps that will prevent known issues specific to your upgrade scenario. This app supports the following upgrade paths: 2.x to 3.1 3.1 to 3.2 3.2 to 3.3 3.3 to 3.4 The app will ask you a few general...
    Posted 2014-06-23T03:14:03+00:00 - 0
  • Kernel Oops Analyzer

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: Kernel Oops Analyzer. This tool is designed to help you diagnose a kernel crash. When you input a text or a file including one or more kernel oops messages, we will walk you through diagnosing the kernel crash issue. To use this app, copy and paste a text or choose a file including kernel oop messages and click the Detect button. All kernel messages will be extracted and shown on the right side of the page. If only one kernel oops message...
    Posted 2014-06-20T07:50:34+00:00 - 3
  • OpenSSL Privilege Separation Analysis

    As part of the security response process, Red Hat Product Security looks at the information that we obtain in order to align future endeavors, such as source code auditing, to where problems occur in order to attempt to prevent repeats of previous issues. Private key isolation When Heartbleed was first announced, a patch was proposed to store private keys in isolated memory, surrounded by an unreadable page. The idea was that the process would crash due to a segmentation violation before the...
    Posted 2014-06-18T13:30:11+00:00 - 0
  • LVM RAID Calculator

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: LVM RAID Calculator. To create Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on RAID, you usually need to execute several commands and carefully provide parameters for each. A subtle error in a command parameter might cause the execution to fail or affect the performance of your LVM. This app is designed to walk you though creating LVM on RAID by dividing the creation procedure into a few steps and generating all necessary commands with appropriate...
    Posted 2014-06-12T06:11:58+00:00 - 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is here: new improvements to downloads, product page, and documentation

    With the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on Tuesday June 10th, we've improved several things for our customers to provide the best experience yet. Two new ways to download a product- A product page download section, and a revamped downloads area: A refined getting started guide, using icons to help prep and set expectations for a basic deployment of RHEL 7 Curated content for user tasks to help customers accomplish their most important tasks A redesigned look and feel to the docs...
    Posted 2014-06-09T20:33:19+00:00 - 1
  • Log Analyzer moves to React

    The latest release of Log Analyzer on June 3rd includes a major internal rewrite to the React library by Facebook. The rewrite to React opened up a great deal interaction between UI components that wasn't previously elegant to implement. Let's take a look at some of the more significant changes. Main Log Analyzer page Now when you navigate to Log Analyzer there is a Quick Start section and a demo video VDSM (Virtualized Server and Desktop Management) - NEW! Log Analyzer now supports VDSM...
    Posted 2014-06-05T13:03:40+00:00 - 0
  • Introducing comments for documentation

    We're excited to announce the new ability to comment on new documentation within the Customer Portal. This is live and available today and we'll begin to roll this out for future documentation releases as well. For an example see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Release Notes. Several months ago we introduced a survey for our documentation to gather feedback from the people who use it the most. With this most recent release we wanted to take that a step further, as we felt it was really...
    Posted 2014-05-27T16:59:17+00:00 - 0
  • Log Analyzer

    We are proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: Log Analyzer Log Analyzer is a multi-purpose log parsing web application with an emphasis on break/fix and identification of errors in your log files. Currently there are plenty of enterprise solutions in the log parsing arena but none that work in an on-demand fashion and none that tie into Red Hat's ecosystem. This app fills that void and provides a means to parse your logs (see the info page for currently supported log types) into a...
    Posted 2014-05-09T17:37:53+00:00 - 7
  • Defeating memory comparison timing oracles

    The standard C functions for comparing two strings of the same length, memcmp can be implemented naïvely as follows: For each byte in the two strings: From both strings, load the byte at the position currently under consideration and compare their values. If they are not equal, return some value matching the sign of their difference (as unsigned bytes). If no differing bytes are discovered, return 0. From time to time, there are reports that this implementation results in a timing oracle...
    Posted 2014-05-07T13:30:00+00:00 - 0
  • File System Layout Calculator

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: File System Layout Calculator. To create file systems on multi-disk RAID arrays, you need to use the mkfs command with proper arguments. You need to carefully calculate the value for arguments like stride and stripe-width to make sure that your file systems align with the underlying RAID arrays and that you have maximized performance. This app is designed to save you the trouble of making tedious and error-prone calculations by creating...
    Posted 2014-05-05T03:30:02+00:00 - 5
  • SSL/TLS Everywhere – visions of a secure OpenStack

    As most people familiar with OpenStack are already aware, it is made up of many software components that are typically deployed in a distributed manner. The more scalable an OpenStack deployment is, the more distributed the underlying components are as the infrastructure is usually scaled out horizontally on commodity hardware. As a consequence of this distributed architecture, there are many communication channels used between all of the software components. We have users communicating...
    Posted 2014-04-23T13:42:34+00:00 - 0
  • At the Summit? Visit the Customer Experience Booth!

    At the Summit? Stop by the Customer Experience booth and do the following: Talk to Red Hat Support Engineers about your technical issues, upcoming products, or anything else you can think of! Enter our tech challenge for a chance to win a pair of Bose QC-15 noise canceling headphones. Interested in further details? Swing by the booth! Not sure where our booth is? From the main entry point to the Moscone Center South on Howard Street, simply walk in and instead of getting on the escalators,...
    Posted 2014-04-15T22:36:45+00:00 - 0
  • Moscone Center Gearing up for Red Hat Summit!

    Sitting here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, one can sense a palpable excitement for the upcoming Red Hat Summit! Keynotes begin tonight and the customer experience booth opens at 5pm. Come on by and take our skills test to see how you do. Not in San Francisco? Don't worry, head on over to http://www.redhat.com/summit/ and live stream the keynotes tonight starting at 6:30pm PDT / 9:30pm EDT / 1:30am UTC. Too late in the evening for you? The keynotes will be recorded and those are...
    Posted 2014-04-14T20:21:07+00:00 - 0
  • New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Feature: systemd-journald

    A lot has already been written about systemd-journald. For example, this article describes the security benefits of the journal. I would argue that systemd-journal is not a full replacement for syslog. The syslog format is ubiquitous, and I don't see it going away. On all Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 machines, syslog will still be on by default. This is because it's still the defacto mechanism for centralizing your logging data, and most tools that analyze log data read syslog data. The journald...
    Posted 2014-04-11T13:30:53+00:00 - 0
  • New Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Feature: systemd Starting Daemons

    Why is this a security feature? In previous releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, system daemons would be started in one of two ways: At boot, init (sysV) launches an initrc script and then this script launches the daemon. An admin can log in and launch the init script by hand, causing the daemon to run. Let me show you what this means from an SELinux point of view. NOTE: In the code below, @ means execute, --> indicates transition, and === indicates a client/server communication. The...
    Posted 2014-04-08T13:30:52+00:00 - 0
  • Changes to the Customer Portal

    The latest release of the Customer Portal offers a few new changes with regard to content and our navigational layout that we’re really excited about. We recently introduced new product pages that serve as centralized locations for you to find all available resources in relation to a product. These pages offer direct access to our knowledge, documentation, videos, discussions, and more. We're happy to announce that we now offer pages for all of Red Hat's currently supported products. We've...
    Posted 2014-04-04T13:50:34+00:00 - 3
  • KDump Helper

    We're proud to introduce a new Red Hat Access Labs app: KDump Helper. KDump is a reliable kernel crash-dumping mechanism that captures crash dumps for troubleshooting issues like kernel crashes, hangs, and reboots. Setting up KDump usually requires a series of steps and configurations. We developed the KDump Helper app to simplify the process and reduce the effort required to set KDump up on your machines. Input a minimum amount of information and this app will generate an all-in-one script for...
    Posted 2014-04-04T03:27:36+00:00 - 1

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