Marketing description

When coupled with Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, the Smart Management Add-On lets you easily manage the complete lifecycle of and update your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. The Add-On includes the RHN management and provisioning modules for use with RHN and RHN satellite, letting you provision, patch, configure, and fully control your Red Hat Enterprise Linux development, test, and production systems. By proactively automating routine tasks like patch management, you have more time and resources to concentrate on other, higher value-added tasks.

Key selling points

• Manage your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription
• Monitor both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and applications from Oracle, BEA, Apache, and other third-party vendors
• Monitor usage of CPUs, memory, and storage
• Receive email or pager notices when a probe reaches a predefined warning or critical threshold
• View reports and graphs of probe performance over time to determine what adjustments need to be made
• Provision Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems quickly and consistently
• Deploy entire application stacks - from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to independent software vendor (ISV) applications, to custom applications, drivers, firmware, and configuration files
• Quickly create templates for provisioning using Kickstart
• Manage thousands of systems as easily as one using the system groups feature
• Schedule updates to occur during maintenance windows
• Compare package profiles between systems to quickly spot differences
• Replicate an existing environment to achieve a high degree of consistency throughout your IT environment
• Undo problematic changes with snapshots and rollbacks

Product features

• Multiple-organization capabilities
  Logically subdivide your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment by geography, system function, department, or other technical or organizational parameter.