Thanks, but that doesn't help much with my question since I haven't used RHN either. I'd like to have some comprehensive inventory/monitoring/deployment tool but it has to work across different platforms. Ocsinventory-ng works for computer hardware/software inventory and has some (not very usable) deployment features, OpenNMS can monitor about anything, Racktables can show layouts and store configurations, but each of these have separate databases and interfaces with big conceptual differences. Is there anything that combines the operations that people actually have to do to mange data centers in one (preferably free) tool?
Well it looks like it does rhel/centos/fedora/solaris which just leaves windows for me. (Caught the Solaris bit off the wiki)
What don't you like about Ocsinventory-ng?
OpenNMS is very nice:) Too much learning curve, no time atm. I use Nagios, and would love to move off it to Zenoss but it looks like the support around zenoss isn't as good.
Thanks, jlc