
These features require a RHN Satellite Server running locally. centralized CPU and disk usage) cannot be done over the Internet to the hosted RHN servers. Advanced lifecycle management provisioning features, like bare metal PXE boot provisioning and monitoring features (e.g. Red Hat offers a proxy server (Red Hat Network Proxy) that once installed at a site allows machines to securely download updates locally. For an organization that manages multiple machines this is inefficient bandwidth-wise. In the basic subscription model the information about a managed host is stored on Red Hat's servers, and updates get downloaded directly from those servers as well. Subsequently, project Spacewalk was launched. On June 18, 2008, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following the Fedora/RHEL model. The system requires a subscription to allow access to updates. The updates portion of RHN is akin to other types of automatic system maintenance tools such as Microsoft Update for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Users of these operating systems can then invoke the up2date or yum program to download and install updates from RHN.

Other available features include the deployment of custom content to, and the provisioning, configuration, reporting, monitoring of client systems. RHN makes updates, patches, and bug fixes of packages included within Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux available to subscribers. Red Hat Network (abbreviated to RHN) is a family of systems-management services operated by Red Hat. JSTOR ( October 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).

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