On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote: > > > This is where you need something like Katello or Spacewalk. These are management systems which look after managing your infrastructure in such a way that you can view what servers are out of compliance and what patches are waiting to be applied. > > I'm currently evaluating Katello as a long term solution to our Red Hat GNU/Linux management. I'd hazard to guess that you'll probably want to do the same too. These seem like serious overkill for a small number of servers, especially ones where you don't run a lot of local or 3rd party apps and thus should never have a reason to need anything but moderately frequent 'yum -y update' runs. What kind of time and resources does it take to understand, set up, and manage one of these beasts? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com