Our satellite server downloads all updates from RHN. We can then allocate updates to various machines throughout our infrastructure for testing. Once testing is complete, if there are discrepancies, we remove the offending packages from our updates and push the updates to the production machines at night. Michael Ward Redhat Linux Administrator Metro State College of Denver 303-352-4225 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 4:18 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: Linux system administration methodology or best practice Probably not the cleverest way of doing it, but it works for me: I've implemented mrepo, which synchronises updates with RHN. Then I configure my servers to point at mrepo for updates. You can then make mrepo synch, test the latest updates and update production servers after testing. Then synch mrepo to get the next bunch of updates, test, and deploy to production, etc etc. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shaughnessy, Kevin Sent: 27 August 2009 22:06 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Linux system administration methodology or best practice I am also looking for hands-on advice for Red Hat administration, specifically regarding updates: - I'd like a sandbox system to apply them, and test them. Do I have to buy the same level of support for this "trash able" system? (I've already ruled out Fedora and CentOS, as I need to maintain compatibility with EMC PowerPath and Oracle.) - By the time I've evaluated a set of updates, there are new ones, and yum always pulls the newest. How do I migrate my 'approved' set from sandbox to development to production? - How often do you apply updates to your production servers? Security updates? Thanks, -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
