Spacewalk 2.0 Released
The Spacewalk system management tool is available in version 2.0. Spacewalk is the free counterpart of Red Hat's Satellite management solution. System admins use Spacewalk to management tasks such as system inventory, network software installation and upgrade, system provisioning, configuration file management, and sytem monitoring. According to the project website, Spacewalk "...works with RHEL, Fedora, and other RHEL-derivative distributions like CentOS...Limited support for managing Debian machines is also available."
The new 2.0 release includes a new Auditing feature, which lets you associate a specific administrative action, such as creating a user account, to a specific user. Also included are improvements for PostgreSQL database management. Other changes include enhanced analysis of crash reports, as well as better integration of SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) security specifications. New RPM packages for the Spacewalk server and the client editions are in the yum repositories for Fedora and Red Hat. You will also find Suse packages at opensuse.org.
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