topic Re: patch/update management server for Linux ? in Operating System - Linux

patch/update management server for Linux ?

Maaz — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:09:53 GMT

I am running 30 FC 5 machines...all are updated through YUM.
Is it possile that I connect a single machine(update server) to the internet that "Update Server" downloads all updates... and all other 29 FC 5 machines get their updates download from the Update Server..

Simply I wana know that is there any "MS Windows Software Update Service" equivalent for linux(fc/rhel esp)

Regards
Maaz

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

Patrick Terlisten — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:32:55 GMT

Hello Maaz,

you can build you own YUM repository, which you can add to you FC5 clients. You can mirror a repository on the internet and then you add this (now local) repo to you clients. In this case you got a "frozen" version of a official repository.

Reagards,
Patrick

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

Huc_1 — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:02:35 GMT

I would do it like Patrick sugested!

If you go to http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html

and choses site close to your lan you can rsync to a secured system where you have created a local_yum.repo directory on all the 30 FC 5 machine just modifie your to /etc/yum* to point to this "master FC 5 machine" for desynchronized updates.

I Also check on what are and if the updates are indeed valid ones before I apply them.

Enjoy life

Jean-Pierre Huc

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:16:58 GMT

Shalom,

I've tested Up2date and the RedHat Satellite server, and my choice has always been yum.

yum does the job, caclucates the dependencies, even keeps out kernel updates that would disrupt clustering.

Great tool for the job.

Building a yum repo is not all that hard if you need th keep the rpms in house or internet access is a problem.

SEP

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

dirk dierickx — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:56:44 GMT

i also suggest taking a look at the following 2 projects;

one is an RH-network server replacement, the other is a yum rep sync tool.

http://current.tigris.org/

http://www.dotsharp.com.br/programas/yum-repo-sync-english.html

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:47:43 GMT

If you want/need to see a status of each linux box (installed software / needed patches), you need or RHN service (or proxy/satellate server), Aduva OnStage (http://www.aduva.com/index.php?page=onstage_overview) or similar enterprise-level software (PatchLink, etc...). I don't know if there RHN for FC Linux.

In other case you can use yum server with some custom scripts around it.

Re: patch/update management server for Linux ?

George Liu_4 — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:17:42 GMT

You may set one of your server as YUM PROXY, and configured others to use that server as YUM server