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Red Hat Satellite pros and cons

Vendor: Red Hat
4.1 out of 5

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PROS

Satellite provides the ability to target deployments and updates, significantly reducing administrative time for patching systems in large environments.
Satellite Capsule allows efficient management of remote branches, enhancing branch control without third-party dependencies.
The integration with other tools and the management of distributed tools on Red Hat Linux Servers are highly valued features.
Satellite acts as a protective barrier between Red Hat infrastructure and the public Internet, allowing secure management and updates.
Subscription management for servers and environments enables organized grouping and patch management based on patch levels.

CONS

Red Hat Satellite's ability to support third-party tools is limited, as Red Hat does not support all layers from the open-source version of Linux.
Improving integration could lead to a more unified management experience for multiple operating systems within data centers.
There is a request for the bundling of Satellite with Ansible Tower and the Ansible Automation platform to ease management and security challenges.
The management of subscriptions within Satellite is confusing and requires improvements for better usability.
There is a need for better documentation, as existing materials are not well organized or easy to follow.
 

Red Hat Satellite Pros review quotes

JonathanShilling - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 3, 2020
Satellite gives administrators the ability to target deployments and only send out the updates or provision updates to certain groups.
reviewer1450230 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
Nov 24, 2020
Fixing is the most valuable. When you deal with a lot of hardware and software and you have a lot of packages, fixing is a bit difficult. You need to track and pull up all such things, but Satellite makes this task easy. We have branches in other locations, and I can manage other branches by using Satellite Capsule, which is a great feature.
reviewer1556661 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 21, 2021
Technical support has been good.
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reviewer1486413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 8, 2021
Patch management is, for sure, most valuable. For license management and patch management, I would rate it a 10 out of 10.
reviewer1779945 - PeerSpot reviewer
National Expert in Infrastructure and Operations at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 14, 2022
I like the integration with other tools.
Erik Widholm - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 18, 2022
The 'remote execution' feature further helps manage systems on a consistent basis.
Jayasundar S - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at Wipro Limited
Apr 29, 2022
You don't need to depend on any third party. It's a complete solution for patch and configuration management when integrated with the existing system.
reviewer2082255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Technologist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 24, 2023
The compliance auditing helped me a lot.
reviewer1486413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 8, 2023
The most valuable feature is the management of the distributed tool we use in the Red Hat Linux Servers.
AB
Environment Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 27, 2023
The most valuable feature of this solution is vulnerability management.
 

Red Hat Satellite Cons review quotes

JonathanShilling - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst II at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Sep 3, 2020
The product could have more diversity in what it is able to deploy and might do better if it was not dedicated to Red Hat products only.
reviewer1450230 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project & Software Manager at a consultancy with self employed
Nov 24, 2020
It wasn't easy in the beginning, and some effort was required to work it out. I already had the product documentation, but it was not well organized. It wasn't easy to follow. There were a lot of documents here and there.
reviewer1556661 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Apr 21, 2021
There needs to be some margin for improvement in terms of the way Satellite manages subscriptions. It is still very confusing when we have different contracts or different bundles of subscriptions, and we need to manage those within Satellite in a way that's very user-friendly.
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reviewer1486413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 8, 2021
It should basically include a complete slew of system management and monitoring tools such as Nagios. It should be a single pane of glass that gives us a complete solution. It is a good solution, but it is missing a few important things. We're using Capsule for DMVs on other secured zones. Capsule is a part of Satellite to be a proxy of sorts.
reviewer1779945 - PeerSpot reviewer
National Expert in Infrastructure and Operations at a training & coaching company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 14, 2022
Automation can always be improved and refined to continue to make it better.
Erik Widholm - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Enterprise Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 18, 2022
I would like the direct integration with insights to be re-established.
Jayasundar S - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at Wipro Limited
Apr 29, 2022
I would like to see the scalability, user interface, and reporting features improved and for the solution to be simplified. Instead of having complex engineering, it should be simple for the user.
reviewer2082255 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineering Technologist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jan 24, 2023
They could make it more easy to use and improve the GUI so that it's more intuitive.
reviewer1486413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst - AIX and Linux at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Mar 8, 2023
Red Hat Satellite has a short life cycle and we constantly need to update.
AB
Environment Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 27, 2023
It is difficult to update and maintain.