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Update Management Provisioning Monitoring
Simple Web User Interface - Intuitive web interface makes your systems management simple.
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Priority Email Notification - RHN users get the first notifications and first availability to new errata and updates, guaranteeing their systems are up to date.
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Errata Information - Features a full list of all errata for user's systems, complete with versions, packages, and other important information.
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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.
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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.
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Systems Grouping - Allows maintenance of groups rather than individual systems.
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Systems Permissions - Group your systems according to your needs and then assign permissions to different administrators.
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Scheduled Actions - Schedule a certain errata update for a system or group.
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Systems Search - Search your systems or workgroups by packages, errata, or systems specifications. Use our Advanced Search for even more granularity in your search.
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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.
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Bare Metal Provisioning - Automatically provision a system using kickstart to deploy OS, packages, and activation keys (groups, channels, policies and permissions) of your choice.
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Existing State Provisioning - Automatically provision a system to take on the state of an existing system or a predefined installation.
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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.
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Configuration Management - Easily configure text files for individual or groups of systems. Combine with Kickstart actions to enable a complete provisioning action.
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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.
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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.
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Probes: Dozens of low-impact probes can be set for a system,allowing for information to be collected about the performance of systems,network, logs, and applications.
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Custom probes: Create custom probes to monitor additional applications.
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Probe suites: Group probes together and deploy them to many systems at once.
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Notifications: Receive email or pager notices when a probe reaches a pre-defined warning or critical threshold.
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Reporting: View graphs of probe performance over time.
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