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Monitor Linux with Red Hat Insights
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Managing Linux systems centrally in a web interface is old hat rather than Red Hat, who has the Satellite server [1] in its portfolio to perform this function. With this software, you can map the complete life cycle of a system, from initial provisioning through the distribution of software updates and configuration files. Red Hat Insights [2] now offers a cloud service that takes the system monitoring and management approach one step further, especially in hybrid cloud environments.
The service regularly analyzes Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems running the Insights client and proposes actions designed to eliminate potential configuration issues. Insights draws on various databases, and up-to-date common vulnerability and exposure (CVE) and error reports to do this. The databases contain both OpenSCAP-based rulesets for implementing compliance requirements and rulesets that were previously only available in the form of Red Hat Knowledgebase articles [3] (Figure 1).
Figure 1: A large number of Knowledgebase articles are available as rulesets in the Insights cloud service.
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