I rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten. I advise others to study and follow the documentation provided by the vendor. It is the only source of valid information as it is from the creator of this product.
Users using the solution for the first time should have very good and strong technical knowledge about Red Hat because it's a very critical product of Red Hat. If you misuse it, you might end up with your production servers down. So, you must be very careful while using the solution for the first time. Overall, I rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten.
Manager of IT Infrastructure & Data Center Operations at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-09T08:44:50Z
Oct 9, 2023
You have to take each server and directly use Red Hat's portal to download the repository for updates or something. Currently, in our company, we manage only one server from Red Hat to download all the required updates, after which we push it to our sites for the rest of the Linux servers. Considering the present, I would not recommend the solution to others. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.
Lead Engineer Datacenter, Security, and Automation at Converge Global Concept Technologies
Real User
Top 10
2023-05-22T07:11:00Z
May 22, 2023
I would recommend using the solution because it allows you to develop infrastructure and ensures compliance, among other things. I would give it a nine. The reason being that it provides a comprehensive solution for managing the entire IT infrastructure, not just limited to enterprise limits. It is very stable and robust, making life easier. So, that's basically it. It deserves a high rating.
Environment Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
2023-02-27T20:57:34Z
Feb 27, 2023
I would rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten. The functionality is very good but it is difficult to update the structure and difficult to maintain it.
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-01-26T16:48:00Z
Jan 26, 2023
I give the solution a nine out of ten. From my experience, RHS/insights is better than tenable.io for authenticated vuln and conformity scanning. It could require about 1/10 of a man-year to manage RHS as updates are needed twice a year and there may be occasional glitches with licensing that need TLC.
Senior Engineering Technologist at Dell Technologies
Real User
Top 20
2023-01-24T14:53:38Z
Jan 24, 2023
I would rate this solution as seven out of ten. For those who are interested in using this solution, my advice is that it will be a bumpy road. If there's something else that would fit your needs, then my advice is to use that instead.
I would rate this solution 7 out of 10. I wouldn't recommend this solution compared to other solutions. We need a complete solution to work on our data center in the public cloud. It can be Linux, Windows, etc. I need a solution which can work across the environment, so I would go with a product other than Satellite.
National Expert in Infrastructure and Operations at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2022-02-14T22:06:09Z
Feb 14, 2022
My past company was a partner of Red Hat. My latest company is not. It's just a customer and an end-user. I am working with an updated version of the solution at this time. We're using a private cloud on-premises right now. I'd advise new users maybe get more information about the releases about the new features first to get a sense of the technology and what's to come. I'll rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2021-09-08T18:50:29Z
Sep 8, 2021
You do have to plan for having the skills to use and maintain it onsite. That's pretty much it, and then you can leverage it. It doesn't do everything. It just does what it is supposed to be doing, and they're pretty clear about it, which is not so bad. It isn't a full system management system. It, for sure, is not a monitoring tool. It does a great job for what it is doing, but it does very low in comparison to what I would think it should be doing. I would like to have a pane of glass. They already have 90% of the solution. Why don't they just take it to the next little step? I would rate it a seven out of 10.
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
2021-04-21T17:51:46Z
Apr 21, 2021
We're just a customer and an end-user. We are a vendor that works with Open Source Solutions, mostly Linux-based. It was recently - maybe two years ago - acquired by IBM, so it's not part of the IBM group. We work a lot with the branded products from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Satellite to Automation Solutions. We are working with the latest version of Satellite, as we've recently upgraded it about three months ago. I'd recommend it to anyone who manages significantly sized Linux environments. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
Real User
2020-11-24T21:59:20Z
Nov 24, 2020
We chose this product because we are a Red Hat business partner, and we know that Red Hat has excellent products. It was our first choice. I would definitely recommend this solution to anyone who wants to manage the software. I would rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten.
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
2020-09-03T07:49:47Z
Sep 3, 2020
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Red Hat Satellite as about a seven or seven-and-a-half out of ten. It could probably be a bit more robust in some areas. They have not, to my knowledge, done a major revision update in a while. So I would say about a seven or seven-and-a-half is fair. Red Hat has been moving toward an Ansible solution more than the Satellite solution in recent years. That is not really a problem for me. It is just that I would like to see the Satellite server product more updated than it has been. It is a good product for what it does. It is just out-of-date.
Red Hat Satellite is a powerful system management tool that is designed to enable users to maximize the effectiveness of any Red Hat infrastructure solutions that they wish to deploy. It can automate most of the management tasks that administrators would otherwise have to manually perform. This enables businesses to avoid the possibility that human error is going to in some way reduce the efficiency of their operations. Additionally, it increases an organization’s ability to address all of...
I rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten. I advise others to study and follow the documentation provided by the vendor. It is the only source of valid information as it is from the creator of this product.
Users using the solution for the first time should have very good and strong technical knowledge about Red Hat because it's a very critical product of Red Hat. If you misuse it, you might end up with your production servers down. So, you must be very careful while using the solution for the first time. Overall, I rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten.
You have to take each server and directly use Red Hat's portal to download the repository for updates or something. Currently, in our company, we manage only one server from Red Hat to download all the required updates, after which we push it to our sites for the rest of the Linux servers. Considering the present, I would not recommend the solution to others. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.
I rate Red Hat Satellite a five out of ten. I recommend it to users who have basic technical knowledge and skills.
I would recommend using the solution because it allows you to develop infrastructure and ensures compliance, among other things. I would give it a nine. The reason being that it provides a comprehensive solution for managing the entire IT infrastructure, not just limited to enterprise limits. It is very stable and robust, making life easier. So, that's basically it. It deserves a high rating.
I rate Red Hat Satellite seven out of 10. It's an excellent product that has been useful for us.
I would rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten. The functionality is very good but it is difficult to update the structure and difficult to maintain it.
I give the solution a nine out of ten. From my experience, RHS/insights is better than tenable.io for authenticated vuln and conformity scanning. It could require about 1/10 of a man-year to manage RHS as updates are needed twice a year and there may be occasional glitches with licensing that need TLC.
I would rate this solution as seven out of ten. For those who are interested in using this solution, my advice is that it will be a bumpy road. If there's something else that would fit your needs, then my advice is to use that instead.
I would rate this solution 7 out of 10. I wouldn't recommend this solution compared to other solutions. We need a complete solution to work on our data center in the public cloud. It can be Linux, Windows, etc. I need a solution which can work across the environment, so I would go with a product other than Satellite.
My past company was a partner of Red Hat. My latest company is not. It's just a customer and an end-user. I am working with an updated version of the solution at this time. We're using a private cloud on-premises right now. I'd advise new users maybe get more information about the releases about the new features first to get a sense of the technology and what's to come. I'll rate the solution at a ten out of ten.
I rate this solution a nine out of ten. I would definitely recommend Red Hat Satellite to others, especially for Linux.
You do have to plan for having the skills to use and maintain it onsite. That's pretty much it, and then you can leverage it. It doesn't do everything. It just does what it is supposed to be doing, and they're pretty clear about it, which is not so bad. It isn't a full system management system. It, for sure, is not a monitoring tool. It does a great job for what it is doing, but it does very low in comparison to what I would think it should be doing. I would like to have a pane of glass. They already have 90% of the solution. Why don't they just take it to the next little step? I would rate it a seven out of 10.
We're just a customer and an end-user. We are a vendor that works with Open Source Solutions, mostly Linux-based. It was recently - maybe two years ago - acquired by IBM, so it's not part of the IBM group. We work a lot with the branded products from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Satellite to Automation Solutions. We are working with the latest version of Satellite, as we've recently upgraded it about three months ago. I'd recommend it to anyone who manages significantly sized Linux environments. I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
We chose this product because we are a Red Hat business partner, and we know that Red Hat has excellent products. It was our first choice. I would definitely recommend this solution to anyone who wants to manage the software. I would rate Red Hat Satellite an eight out of ten.
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Red Hat Satellite as about a seven or seven-and-a-half out of ten. It could probably be a bit more robust in some areas. They have not, to my knowledge, done a major revision update in a while. So I would say about a seven or seven-and-a-half is fair. Red Hat has been moving toward an Ansible solution more than the Satellite solution in recent years. That is not really a problem for me. It is just that I would like to see the Satellite server product more updated than it has been. It is a good product for what it does. It is just out-of-date.