Spacewalk (software)
| Original author(s) | Red Hat |
|---|---|
| Initial release | June 2008 |
| Stable release |
2.7 / September 26, 2017
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| Written in | Java, Perl and Python |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | English, Francais, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, Gujarati, Italian, Korean, Brazilian, Portuguese, Tamil, Traditional Chinese |
| Type | Systems management |
| License | GNU General Public License v2 |
| Website | www |
Spacewalk is an open-source systems management solution for system provisioning, patching and configuration licensed under GNU General Public License v2. It is constructed from free and open source software (FOSS) Components.
Spacewalk encompasses the following functions:
Spacewalk Server: Server represents managing System
Spacewalk Client: A system managed by a Spacewalk server
Spacewalk is controlled by the following Interfaces:
Subscription Management:
Backend Database:
A number of DownStream versions use upstream Spacewalk version as the basis of their System Provision, patch and errata management:
Support for particular client OS, server OS, system architecture, Backend Databases and subscription services varies between versions and releases.
Oracle Spacewalk was introduced particularly to provide a familiar alternative for those switching from a different vendor while Oracle Enterprise Manager remains Oracle Corporation's preferred way of managing systems
Oracle's spacewalk server is designed to be hosted on Oracle Linux (OL).
The about section of the release notes in Oracle Spacewalk 2.x Documentation indicate only minor branding changes and changes for GPG keys
Red Hat Satellite 5 is a licensed downstream adaption of Spacewalk with added functionality to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux Subscriptions. In the active years of the Red Hat Satellite 5 lifecycle Spacewalk was simply known as the upstream project for Satellite. The relationship between Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5 was analogous to the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With the emergence of Red Hat Satellite 6 with based on a fundamentally different toolset, end of lifecycle phase of Red Hat Satellite 5 and the emergence of downstream spacewalk based offerings from Oracle and SUSE newer versions of Spacewalk may not have this close relationship.
In March 2011 Novell released SUSE Manager 1.2, based on Spacewalk 1.2 and supporting the management of both SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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