Major Features - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note

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Major Features

The following are the major features released as part of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3.0.
• RHN Satellite includes a significant update to the Multiple Organizations feature, which allows
administrators to view, create, and manage multiple organizations across the Satellite.
• Trust relationships between organizations are now supported, allowing Satellite Administrators to
establish mutual connections between two or more organizations.
• Organizations within a trust can share their custom content channels with each other, provided
that the Organization Administrator or Channel Administrator gives access to the custom channel
in the channel sharing configuration.
• Organization Administrators can now migrate systems from one trusted organization to another.
The system configuration history (such as entitlements, software and configuration channels, and
virtual guest associations) are preserved. The destination organization can then configure the
system for their purposes.
For more information about multiple organizations feature, refer to the Red Hat Network Satellite
Reference Guide.
• RHN Satellite now supports automated system installation via the cobbler installation server.
Administrators can use Cobbler to store, manage, and automate several aspects of system
installation and provisioning, from package installation and channel subscription to DHCP and DNS
configuration. Administrators can also use the koan tool to re-provision existing systems and guests
in a virtualized system. For more information about using Cobbler and Koan, refer to the Red Hat
Network Satellite Reference Guide.
Note
Installation of cobbler packages overwrites existing files in the /tftpboot/ directory.
If you intend to continue running PXE services on RHN Satellite 5.3.0 server, you must
backup and rename the existing /tftpboot/ directory before installing or upgrading to
Satellite 5.3.0.
• RHN Satellite now features Inter-Satellite Sync support, which allows Satellite Administrators to
synchronize channel content from one master Satellite server to one or more slave Satellites,
regardless of location. For more information about using Inter-Satellite Sync, refer to the Red Hat
Network Satellite Installation Guide.
• Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3.0 now allows users to install RHN Satellite and RHN Proxy Server
server within a VMWare guest system, in addition to support for installation on Xen guests from
previous Red Hat Network Satellite releases.
• New and updated search features are now available in RHN Satellite 5.3.0, including:
• Improvements to the errata and system search are now available. Errata can now be queried
using a Free Form search that supports using field names to restrict results to certain keywords
such as package name, package description, filename, and more.
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