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Red Hat Network Module Comparison

Feature Function Benefit Update Management Provisioning Monitoring
Simple Web UI Intuitive web interface makes your systems management simple Use one central console to manage, update and control virtualized instances of Enterprise Linux in your environment
Management of virtual guests: fully virtualized and para-virtualized Creation and kick-start of virtualized Enterprise Linux guests. Update software and manage virtual instances. Start, stop and re-start virtual instances. User does not have to rely on command line knowledge and can also string together multiple requests through a single action on the Web UI.
Priority Email Notification RHN users get the first notifications and first availability to new errata and updates, guaranteeing their systems are up to date. Users don't miss important notifications about errata or learn about them too late
Errata Information Features a full list of all errata for user's systems, complete with versions, packages, and other important information. User has all relevant information about a new package available to them and does not have to search the Web for more information.
RPM Dependency Checking With our database of over 1 million dependencies, users can be sure software downloads have the necessary packages to be stable for your configuration. User can make updates without having to solve dependencies on their own, search for necessary packages, and install these packages independently.
Auto Update A server does not have to be updated each time a new errata is administered--it will simply download and install content on its own. End the work of manually updating systems. Auto Update does it automatically.
Systems Grouping Allows maintenance of groups rather than individual systems. Manage a group of systems as easily as you would manage a single system.
Systems Permissions Group your systems according to your needs and then assign permissions to different administrators. Allows users to distribute the maintenance of systems to different groups, while keeping security guidelines in place.
Scheduled Actions Schedule a certain errata update for a system or group. Allows users to take advantage of scheduled downtime or maintenance windows for errata updates.
Systems Search Search your systems or workgroups by packages, errata, or systems specifications. Use our Advanced Search for even more granularity in your search. Enables lightweight asset management tool and ability to "search" for defined criteria that can form the basis for making groups.
Package Profile Comparison Users can compare two systems directly against each other, or build a package profile to compare against. Results let you see the differences on both machines. Quickly and easily see the differences between two machines, and then take the appropriate actions to correct it if necessary.
Bare Metal Provisioning Automatically provision a system using kickstart to deploy OS, packages, and activation keys (groups, channels, policies and permissions) of your choice. Quickly and easily see the differences between two machines, and then take the appropriate actions to correct it if necessary.
Existing State Provisioning Automatically provision a system to take on the state of an existing system or a predefined installation. Easily perform "on-the-fly" provisioning of your system with the simple point and click of a button.
Multi State Rollback (includes snapshot based recovery) RHN records the state of all of your systems every time an action is applied to them, serving as a repository for state information. Multi State Rollback allows your system to return to a previous state or configuration instantly. No more manual removing of packages, trying to remember preexisting configurations, or using rollback through multiple iterations. Red Hat Network records these states for you and makes the process quick and easy.
Configuration Management Easily configure text files for individual or groups of systems. Combine with Kickstart actions to enable a complete provisioning action. Avoid manually having to perform configuration management to each system and doing this independently of the provisioning process.
RPM Based Application Provisioning More than just OS provisioning, RHN allows application-based provisioning for all RPM based applications--completely integrated with the rest of RHN. Include RPM-based applications during your provisioning process.
Scheduled Remote Command Allows RHN users to remotely deploy a command to a systems and schedule when that command will occur. Easily deploy specific commands to your systems, enabling more complete remote management.
Kickstart Configuration Writer Write Kickstart configuration scripts with our tool, or point to an existing system and have RHN create the script to provision that system. User can automatically develop Kickstart scripts and/or slightly modify existing scripts rather than writing them from scratch.
Probes Dozens of low impact probes to collect performance metrics of systems, network, logs. Probes can be customized. Increased visibility into your systems helps you eliminate issues and tune performance.
Probe Suites Group and deploy probes in standard configurations Save time when deploying monitoring for multiple systems
Notifications and Reporting Receive email and pager notices on pre-defined warnings, Report on probe performance over time React and report on the performance of your systems, real-time and historically.

Notes:

*All Update functionality shown here available with basic RHEL subscription in the hosted model.

See Architecture comparison table for deployment options