Question about smart management and RHN
Hi All,
I want to know about smart management add on, what the function? how about if i only by standard or premium RHEL support without smart management add on, what the limitation about this.
also if i want to deploy RedHat satellite and client connected only have Standard or premium subscription without smart management addons,please tell me about the limitation or pros and cons
Thnks
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Red Hat
25369 points
Hi Yusuf, have you checked out the information page at http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux-add-ons/smart-management/ ?
Active Contributor
148 points
Yes im already check that link
so i dont need to buy smart management add on for rhel connected to hosted RHN right? also i dont need to buy smart management add on if i want connect to my private RHN (i dont need feature on smart management)?
Thnks
Hi Yusuf,
Yes, To register RHEL system to RHN Classic(Hosted) you do not need Smart Management entitlement (its optional). Every RHEL subscription provides Update entitlement which can be used to register system on RHN Hosted.
But if you want to register any system to Red Hat Satellite then it is mandatory to have Management entitlement for that system. Without having Management entitlement we can not register system to Satellite.
Regards,
Ashish
Hi,
if i have 4 RHEL VDC hosting 12 RHEL instance, is it possible to use 12 x Smart Management Add-ons instead of 4 x Smart Management Add-ons unlimited? so the idea to have Smart Management Add ons for every RHEL instance?
I got Smart Mgmt last summer. It allows you to push rhn updates from the RHN website for any number of servers. If you have 20+ servers to update, it can be done on a schedule from the website.
You need to have the rhnsd service running on the servers. They check-in to see if there are any updates. Works well for me.
You buy one Smart Mgmt addon for your whole datacenter. It is not sold per server.
Paul
I am planning to deploy only RHEL 7.2 servers in my environment that interact with Satellite 6. If I want to register and yum update update all future servers, would I need RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX SMART MANAGEMENT ADD-ON for each new server?
As per KB: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1988363
In Satellite 6, the number of RHEL subscriptions is used to determine how many systems can be managed by Satellite. The customer is contractually required to maintain a Smart Management subscription for every RHEL subscription that they wish to manage with Satellite. That remains the same as it has been with previous versions of Satellite.
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