Red Hat Satellite Primary Use Case

Erik Widholm - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Our main use is for patch management and cataloguing our RHEL infrastructure. Keeping inventories on spreadsheets and maintaining them is a tedious detail. Satellite allows us to have an up-to-the-minute inventory of our servers.

Satellite allows us also to review configuration issues with the 'all ansible roles' feature which helps us ensure that a) the servers are connectable and b) they are configured similarly as expected. 

Due to the cloud connecter, our inventory is uploaded on a regular basis to cloud.redhat.com (insights) where we get insight into configuration issues, specific vulnerabilities to address, et cetera.

Having Satellite has enabled us to maintain control of our RHEL infrastructure without having to hire additional help due to the size of the environment.

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JonathanShilling - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Red Hat is an operating system. It has been out since 1995 or 1996 and went through a few iterations before it became a true enterprise solution. Basically, they changed their name and changed the version name back between about 2003 to 2005 when they came to that point.  

Satellite is a package management solution most commonly used to maintain patch levels and security updates. It is something like what SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) does on Windows servers and Windows workstations.  

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BG
Network Administrator at Tommy Bahama

We use the product mostly for patching about 92 Linux hosts.

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Ugochukwu Okorie - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Engineer Datacenter, Security, and Automation at Converge Global Concept Technologies

I use it to manage my Red Hat infrastructure, basically, for patch management, configuration management, security management, as well as third-party updates.

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Hamad Shahrani - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operations at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My company uses Red Hat Satellite to manage all the workloads as well as updates in Red Hat.

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Shambhu Narayan  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Axis Securities Limited

We use Red Hat Satellite to patch our system completely. It is a very useful product in the market for Red Hat to patch their servers.

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MM
IT Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It simplifies the management of patches and updates, reduces the risk of security vulnerabilities, and ensures that our RHEL systems remain stable and secure.

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AB
Environment Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Red Hat Satellite is used to manage the whole server cluster. 

Every day, there are several vulnerabilities. 

The solution is quite complete, allowing us to monitor the servers and keep them up to date while also addressing the vulnerabilities we have.

It is important to handle zero-day threats as well as your administration's day-to-day operations. It is complete, and we have also begun using a new website. It is a complete tool, that is recommended for compliance, and planning for upgrades.

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Ahmed-Yehia - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at PClink

We used Red Hat Satellite to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments. Its main purpose is to facilitate efficient management, provisioning, patching, and configuration of Linux systems across various infrastructures.

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LM
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for content view creation for uniform patching of RHEL landscapes over time.

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Jayasundar S - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at Wipro Limited

I use this solution for patch management and configuration management.

It's a hybrid solution.

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JL
Owner at Inventrics technologies

We use Red Hat Satellite for patching purposes.

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AP
Senior Engineering Technologist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We used Red Hat Satellite for deployment, and we wanted to do the initial configuration. We used it for package management and security compliance auditing.

I'm using version 6.7. It was deployed on-premises.

There were five people using this solution on my team. They were all engineers.

We also have Red Hat Linux servers.

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VivekSaini - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at Aon Corporation

Our primary use case of Red Hat Satellite is patch management. It's for configuration in the Linux server, and we use if for patching and pushing the bundle. 

This solution is deployed on-prem. I'm using the latest version. 

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LM
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We use it for patch management and license management. We also use it for insights, which is their recommendation engine to say what's wrong and what's right.

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TM
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We use Satellite to distribute updates to all our Linux apartments. It's our content management platform for Linux Operating Systems. We use this to orchestrate our entire network and also to validate the configurations.

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JA
National Expert in Infrastructure and Operations at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use the solution for automation. For example, it can help me to deploy applications. We are intending to do continuous delivery and continuous deployment. For this approach, we are using this product.

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YS
BMC discovery consultant at Radium Technologies Ltd

We use the product for patching features.

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MO
System Administrator at CST

We use Satellite to get updates directly from Red Hat because our servers are not connected to the internet, so we get all the updates through Satellite using a central repository. We use the solution regularly when we update or reprovision servers.  

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MA
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed

We are using it mainly for managing the software and taking care of licensing periods, fixes and enhancements, features, and all similar things for the software.

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