Red Hat Smart Management

With Red Hat Satellite 6.7

Technical Overview

Tuấn (Jun) Lê
Solution Architect
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Real World
Challenges
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Red Hat Smart Management can help

Do your processes scale? Are you confident you can Are your systems compliant?
quickly respond?

Increase efficiency Address security easily Audit and remediate systems

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Introduction to
Satellite
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Why Red Hat Satellite?

Manage Red Hat® Streamlined Developed to scale Simplified Enhanced drift

infrastructure content management system integration and configuration
management
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Content Management

Content Repository any type of

content made available to any host

Curation of content prior to

distribution

Distribution of content as close as

possible to the end point.
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Patch Management

Report on hosts that need updates,

fixes, or enhancements

Group homogeneous systems so that

you can easily work with them

Respond quickly to patching

requirements using scalable automation
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Provisioning Management

Provision to bare metal, virtual,

private, and public clouds

Import non-provisioned hosts

Automate using Ansible roles to

perform post-provisioning steps
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Subscription Management

Centrally manage subscription usage

Maintain accurate inventory and

utilization information

Report on subscription consumption

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Additional Satellite Capabilities

Configuration Management using

Ansible or Puppet

Automation through integration with

Ansible Tower

Compliance using OpenSCAP policies

Standard Operating Environment hosts
are the same across your environment

Reliable and Resilient Using Red Hat

Insights
Secure your systems are patched, up
to date, and compliant with security
policies

Confidence in your subscription utilization

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Introduction to
Insights
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Now included with all Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions

Buy Get
 Basic Communication Flow

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Data Sent to Insights for examination
Insights does this daily, automatically

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Risk Found!
Satellite reads the data from Insights, dashboard widgets show the new risk

Oh no...

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)

*Satellite does not store any information from Insights in the database. It is all real time.
 Create a Remediation Plan
A user creates the remediation plan through Satellite

I can fix
it!

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Plan Executes

1) Playbook is downloaded from Insights.

2) Satellite parses playbook per host
3) Satellite schedules the remote execution job(s)

I can fix
it!

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Plan Executes

1) Playbook is downloaded from Insights.

2) Satellite parses playbook per host
3) Satellite schedules the remote execution job(s)
4) Capsule runs playbooks using Ansible against
each host.

I can fix
it!

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Data Sent to Insights for examination
Rescan is done after remediation completes

Please
work...

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
 Data Sent to Insights for examination
The dashboard will pull updated info from Insights, showing the risk was
resolved.

Back to
reddit!

SATELLITE CAPSULE
USER HOSTS
SERVER SERVER(S)
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Red Hat Satellite Cloud management services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Vulnerability Compliance System comparison
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How Satellite Deployment Models

Works
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Red Hat Satellite components

Red Hat Satellite Server Red Hat Capsule Server

Facilitates multi tenant services Allows scaling of your

Satellite environment
Offers on-premise repository management
Provides local content, provisioning,
Gives user and group role-based access and integration services
control (RBAC)
Discovers new physical and
Delivers powerful user interfaces (GUI, API, virtual machines
and CLI)*

Exports content to other Satellite servers

*Graphical user interface (GUI), application program interface

(API), and command line interface (CLI)
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Improve scalability
and automation with
capsule servers.
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Red Hat® Satellite

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Red Hat Satellite in an

air-gapped environment CONTENT

IMPORT EXPORT

ISOLATED DATACENTER HA NOI DATACENTER

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DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Red Hat Satellite

with cloud services CONTENT

managed outside of
Red Hat Satellite

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Satellite resources
Red Hat Satellite blog

Red Hat Satellite product page

Red Hat Satellite customer portal

Red Hat Satellite documentation

Red Hat Consulting offering: Transition to Red Hat Satellite 6

Satellite training and videos

NEW COURSE
RH053: Satellite Technical Overview (also available on Udemy)

RH403: Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration

Satellite 6.5 Reporting Engine Video

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