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Q&A Red Hat Satellite Server Walli Datoo Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software, Interactive Ideas Red Hat Satellite Server extends the functionality of Red Hat Network by adding a suite of sophisticated management tools, ensuring that the life of a senior administrator is made easier explains Walli Datoo Test Drive How can resellers benefit from selling a Red Hat Satellite Server? The Satellite Server provides resellers an upsell opportunity when they sell 10 or more Red Hat subscriptions into an account. It also allows them to make sure end customers renew all their Red Hat subscriptions year in, year out! Server inventory and patch management capabilities in the Satellite Server will allow resellers to also evaluate a customers estate and make sure their estate is highly optimised running on appropriate hardware and scalable hardware. From a resellers perspective the Satellite Server enables both software and hardware sales. How many Linux servers do you need to start benefiting from Red Hat Network? Put simply, Red Hat Satellite Server is a systems management platform that makes Linux deployable, scalable, and manageable providing complete lifecycle management, including patch management, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring. If you have 10 or more servers in your estate, the Red Hat Satellite Server provides effective management tools to make sure you are in Product Information White Papers Case Studies Videos Learn more about Red Hat and Jboss at www.testdriveinteractiv Makes Linux deployable, scalable, and manageable control of your Linux infrastructure. Red Hat Satellite Server supports all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 2.1, 3, 4, and 5) on all supported platforms. Red Hat Satellite Server also supports the Sun Solaris operating system (versions 8, 9 and 10 on 64bit SPARC) and Solaris 9 and 10 effectively allowing you to manage your Unix and Linux servers. What additional benefits does Red Hat Satellite Server add to Red Hat Network? Red Hat Satellite Server is designed to be an extension of Red Hat Network hosted. While you can do basic administrative tasks with the Red Hat Network services included with your subscription, Red Hat Satellite Server adds high-end management, provisioning, and monitoring through its modules. This administrative functionality is often needed by organizations with large or complex Linux environments. Red Hat Satellite Server delivers updates, errata, and software in a highly scalable fashion while minimizing use of network bandwidth. Red Hat Satellite Server is capable of being run in a detached/secure mode where content updates are loaded in using physical media. Channel content ISOs can be downloaded from Red Hat Network and are required to keep certified content up-to-date. Many organizations that have very tight security requirements utilize the detached Satellite configuration. Red Hat Satellite Server solves some Key pain points that system administrators face at the moment: 1. High/growing administration and management costs (high TCO): ignificantly improve system to administrator S ratios through automation of patch management, configuration management, provisioning, and monitoring educe errors and inconsistencies and allow R junior level administrators to perform tasks of senior administrators with tasks codified into an intuitive GUI ecrease ongoing deployment, configuration D and management costs ower administration costs by easily L standardizing machine configurations 2. Time/resource requirements: nable time savings to allow admins to focus E on higher value activities oll out new systems in minutes with Red Hat R Satellite Server Provisioning module ncrease number of systems without adding I more administrators 3. System downtime: eceive alerts on system performance R and quickly re-provision systems to meet increasing performance needs 4. Security: nstantly see system status via web interface I www.testdriveinteractiv 0208 805 2999 Q&A Red Hat Satellite Server Walli Datoo Senior Product Manager for Open Source Software, Interactive Ideas Red Hat Satellite Server extends the functionality of Red Hat Network by adding a suite of sophisticated management tools, ensuring that the life of a senior administrator is made easier expla Q&A Red Hat Satellite Server to know if any systems need important patch or configuration changes mprove security through centralized on- I premise management tool 5. Limited functionality & scalability: istribute custom content as well as RHEL D updates in batch asily scales to thousands of s