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Chapter 2. Enhancements

The following are a list of improvements and enhancements made to RHN Satellite 5.4
  • Bug 631875 - SELinux modules that support Monitoring of RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are available. Note that because this feature is a Technology Preview, it may not be functionally complete and is currently not supported for production use.
  • Bug 495973, 567178 - Within Satellite web user interface now includes the America/Regina and Pacific/Auckland time zones for selection.
  • Bug 556787 - The rhnsearchd and taskomaticd daemons are now confined by SELinux policies in Satellite 5.4
  • Bug 578292 - The spacewalk-report command-list utility now provides three new reports:
    • channel-packages — listing of packages in channels
    • channels — a detailed Channel report
    • errata-list-all — A full listing of all erratas
  • Bug 582772 - spacewalk-create-channel is a new command line utility to help automate channel cloning to specific Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance releases.
  • MultiOrg System migrations can now be performed via the Satellite Web user interface on a per-system basis. You may also continue to use the previously-released migrate-system-profile command line utility to perform the same task.