From 23.05 to 25.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Boston. The manufacturer's own conference thus took place - for well-known reasons - for the first time since 2020 in presence. For me it was the first Red Hat conference.

A fresh Spacewalk installation usually defines user accounts in a local manner - including permissions. Especially for bigger system landscapes with requirements such as Single Sign-on, this is not a practical solution.

Fortunately, Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5 support authentication using FreeIPA and Red Hat …

This week Spacewalk was released in version 2.4 after 6 months of development. In summary, about 60 bugs were fixed and some new features were implemented.

The web-interface is now available to other projects as part of the Patternfly framework. The project driven mainly by Red Hat aims at combining beatiful designs …

This week Red Hat Satellite 5.7 was released. With the ninth update of the 5.x tree many improvements from the Spacewalk development were applied.

New web interface

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Hint from january 2015: the bug has been fixed in the meantime.

I found out that it is currently (11/01/2014) impossible to run osad (Open Source Architecture Daemon) with SELinux enabled on EL6.6 and EL7 systems. The following error message can be seen while starting the service:

 1# service osad restart
 2Shutting …

This week the first official CentOS Dojo in Cologne was taking place. CentOS Dojos are one-day events where administrators and developers can exchange knowledge. Talks about recent topics are always part of these events.

inovex GmbH kindly features the event by providing their rooms and hearty catering. Beside coffee …

It is possible that RHEL7 channels aren't available to Red Hat Satellite even though you're having a valid Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription.

The appropriate software channel (rhel-x86_64-server-7) is not part of the list of available channels - it also cannot be downloaded manually:

1# satellite-sync …

Beside Linux systems also Oracle Solaris hosts can be managed using Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite - a cool feature that is often forgotten. (Update: since Spacewalk 2.2 from 07/16/2014 this function is "deprecated" which means that it might be removed in one of the following releases)

Bigger companies which …