Hi

We have almost 100 Red Hat Linux Server and all managed by Red Hat Satellite. I wanted to ask how to update servers automatically using Red Hat Satellite??

Also there was a complain from a user that a server was auto updated ( kernel patches) and caused issues. I do not see anything in satellite that would auto update..

Could anyone tell me if there is a way to auto update and how to check who/when updates were applied to a server. I can see in event in Satellite of that server and did not see anything.


Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards
Sam

I'm no Satellite expert, but I do know that normally a 'client' server will update automatically via the rhnsd daemon as per normally it would go to rhn; default is every 4 hrs.
You can disable that via chkconfig and get the Satellite Server to push out updates instead I believe, but you'll have to read the docs here http://spacewalk.redhat.com/documentation.html

Automatic updates in not really the best way to go. Your updates should be planned out according to how they could affect applications and such.

That being said I don't satellite has a way to automatically push updates. You can schedule updates to be applied though.

You could setup a cron to run yum check-update or if you are only concerned about security updates yum check-updates --security or yum update --security to just update packages related to Red Hat Security Advisories.