Systems permissions can be assigned to administrators and groups of 

systems.

Actions like updates can be scheduled for a system or group. 

Systems search allows you to search your systems and groups by package or 

errata or system specifications.

You can compare packages between systems or build a package profile to 

compare systems against.

The Provisioning module is really useful when you use RHN to create new 

clients. Apart from everything in the Update and Management module, you also 

get:

Bare metal provisioning   A tool to automatically provision a system using 

kickstart to deploy OS, packages, and activation keys.

Existing state provisioning   Provision a system to take the state of an existing 

system of a predefined installation.

A rollback functionality to roll back updates.

Configuration management that can combine with kickstart actions to enable 

a complex provisioning action.

Provision applications based on RPMs.

Kickstart configuration writer.

All these options are available in the Hosted architecture. The Proxy and Satellite 

architectures add extras like custom channels, integrated network installs, and 

much more.

Using RHN it is possible to remote manage the RHD clients. For the Hosted 

architecture the management is limited to the OS and applications included in the 

distribution. Using the other architectures it is possible to create channels for 

third party applications.

More information about RHN is available at:

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhn

More information is also in  Satellite server and Red Hat Network (RHN)  on 

page 162.

Administration of Novell Linux Desktop

The preferred method to update the Novell Linux Desktop is through the use of 

Red Carpet. Red Carpet Enterprise has become part of Zenworks. The new 

version Zenworks 6.5 includes a Linux Management part that is based on the old 

Red Carpet Enterprise code.

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