Announcing Spacewalk Support for Oracle Linux Basic and Premier Customers
- by Michele Casey
Over the years, customers migrating to Oracle Linux have asked for options to provide a transitional solution for their existing system management tools (such as Red Hat Satellite Server) while evaluating and planning migrations to Oracle's Enterprise Manager, which is offered at no additional charge with Oracle Linux Support Subscriptions. Based on this request, we are pleased to announce support for the open-source community project, Spacewalk, which is the basis for both Red Hat Satellite Server and SUSE Manager. Effective today, customers with Oracle Linux Basic and Premier Support subscriptions have access to a fully supported Spacewalk build which can be setup to easily manage Oracle Linux systems.
Spacewalk support for Oracle Linux requires Oracle Linux 6, x86_64 for the server and provides support for Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6 (x86, x86_64) clients. This solution requires Oracle Database 11g Release 2 as the supported database repository for Spacewalk with Oracle Linux. Within the next several weeks, a limited use license for the Oracle Database will be included with this offer. Until this is complete, customers may use an existing Oracle database license or they may begin by downloading a 30-day trial license from eDelivery. Customers with Oracle Linux Basic and Premier subscriptions will automatically have access to the channel hosting the supported build. Please review the release notes for further instructions.
Oracle Enterprise Manager is still the recommended enterprise solution for managing Oracle Linux systems and we want to provide the easiest transition path for our customers. We are excited to offer this solution to our Oracle Linux customers while they plan and implement their migration to Oracle Enterprise Manager.