| |  | Red Hat Product Info |  | Red Hat Products Explained There are 3 genres of Red Hat product:
- Operating System (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
- Network Options (Red Hat Network Additional Options)
- Applications (Red Hat Enterprise Applications) |
| Operating System (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Red Hat Advanced Platform
Red Hat Advanced Platform supports an unlimited amount of processor sockets and unlimited virtualisation.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides dramatic capabilities beyond basic Enterprise Linux 5. Integrated server and storage virtualization technologies. In a single, easily managed product. With a complete and highly functional environment.
Critical technologies in a single solution. Fully integrated. Ready to go. No need to purchase additional products from multiple vendors. Technologies include:
- Unlimited virtualized guests. Multiple operating systems, multiple versions, multiple performance and security settings, all running on the same server.
- Storage virtualization. Multiple guests, running on the same or different servers, access and share logical storage volumes and file systems. Reap the full benefits of server virtualization with shared storage.
- High availability clustering and failover. Application and guest operating system failover.
Management. Includes comprehensive management capabilities.
Red Hat Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Server supports 2 processor sockets and 4 virtualised guest operating systems..
A base Red Hat Enterprise Linux server has para-virtualized guest operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and version 4 Update 5. It also allows fully-virtualized guest support for all versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Third party operating systems may also be hosted.
A total of 4 guest operating systems will be supported. Para-virtualized guests can be configured on any 32-bit x86 (with PAE support), or 64-bit x86. Fully-virtualized guest support requires hardware features provided by Intel Virtualization Technology and AMD-V processors.
Example server environments:
- Standalone server
- Large SMP "scale-up" server
- Blade server
- High availability cluster server
- Rack server
- Fault tolerant server
- HPC "scale-out" server
- Mainframe servers
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop is an attractive and highly productive alternative for client systems like desktop and laptop computers. An environment that sets the standard for client operating systems in the focused areas of security and management.
Supported Architectures:
- Intel and AMD x86/x86-64
- Intel Itanium2
- IBM POWER
- IBM z-Series and S/390
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| Network Options (Red Hat Network Additional Options) Red Hat Network Additional Options are available to efficiently manage the lifecycle of systems on your network. The components can be used to manage system's updates and configuration changes, monitoring system performance and eventually redeploying systems for a new purpose. |  |
| Red Hat Network Satellite Server All Red Hat Network functionality is stored locally on your network with managed systems conecting to the Satellite Server rather than downloading packages across the internet. Only the Red Hat Network Satellite Server conects with Red Hat over the internet to download updates and synchronise Red Hat content. This model even allows you to take your systems management solution off the public internet if desired.
Local Database Repository - All information about your systems, policies and profiles is stored locally on your infrastructure.
Complete Off Network Capability - Red Hat can provide packages over the internet or via physical media for complete network security.
Custom Channels - Create custom channels for content distribution of either OS or thid party RPM based applications.
Channel and errata cloning and management tools - Easily create, clone or customise channels and errata. Useful for staged environments.
Push to Client - Administrators can send packages and updates to their systems immediately, Rather than wait for the system to check in with the Red Hat Network.
Bare Metal PXE Boot Provisioning - Kickstart systems in tandem with PXE boot images.
Integrated Network Install Tree - Store all default boot images, network install trees and packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Configuration Management Profiles - Store configuration management profiles in an integrated directory for easier deployment. |
| Red Hat Network Proxy Server Proxy servers can be aded to your Satellite environment to scale content distribution across many servers and multiple locations. Individual systems connect through a Red Hat Network Proxy Server on your network to communicate with your Satellite Server.
The proxy aggregates all necessary data and performs selected tasks locally at the Proxy for faster downloads, easier distributuion and lower bandwidth requirements. |
| Red Hat Network Management Module Systems Grouping - Manage a group of systems as easily as you would manage a single system.
Systems Permissions - Group your systems according to your needs, then assign permissions to different administrators. Permisions can also be based on roles within the red hat network.
Scheduled Actions - Scedule an errata update for a system or group, taking advantage of sheduled downtime for errata maintenance.
System Search - Search systems or workgroups by packages, errata or system specifications. Advanced search offers even more granularity.
Package Profile Comparison Tools - Compare two systems directly against each other, or build a package profile of your own to compare against. Results let you see the differences on both machines.
Multiplatform Management - Use Red Hat Network to manage your legacy Solaris systems, giving you a single management tool as you migrate to Linux. (Requires Red Hat Network Satellite Server). |
| Red Hat Network Provisioning Module Bare Metal Provisioning - Automatically provision a new system using Kickstart to deploy the OS, packages and activations keys (groups, channels, policies and permissions) of your choice, all without even touching the machine.
Existing State Provisioning - Automatically provision a system to take on the state of an existing system or predefined installation with a simple point and click
Multi-state Roll Back (includes snapshot based recovery) - Records the state of all your systems every time an action is applied to them, serving as a repository of state information. Multi-state roll back allows your system to return to a previous state or configuration instantly.
Configuration Management - Easily manage configuration files for groups of systems. Combine with Kickstart to enable a complete provisioning action.
RPM-Based Application Provisioning - More than just OS provisioning, Red Hat Network allows application based provisioning for all RPM based applications - completely integrated with the rest of the Red Hat Network.
Kickstart Configuration Writer - Write Kickstart configuration scripts with our tool, or point to an existing system and have Red Hat Network create a script based on that system.
PLEASE NOTE - The Provisioning Module requires the Management Module. |
| Red Hat Network Monitoring Module System Probes - Dozens of checks can be run against each system. These checks can monitor such areas as memory, disk usage and network services.
Application Probes - Checks can be set up to monitor the perfomance of popular applications including Oracle, MySQL, Apache and BEA.
Custom Probes - Easily create custom checks that track valuable information about your applications.
Probe Suites - Create groups of probes for fast deployment and improved consistency.
Notifications - Alerts from systems entering warning and critical states can be sent to e-mail or pager addresses. Each alert notification can be sent to a different address.
Central Status - The results of all probes are summarised in a central page, with the system affected broken down by state.
Reporting - By selecting a probe and identifying the desired metric and a range of time you can generate graphs and event logs depicting precisely how the check has performed.
PLEASE NOTE - The Monitoring Module Requires the Management Module and Satellite Server. |
| Applications (Red Hat Enterprise Applications) Curently the Red Hat Enterprise Applications are:
- Red Hat Global File System
- Red Hat Cluster Suite
- Red Hat Application Server
- Red Hat Directory Server |  |
| Red Hat Global File System Red Hat Global File System (GFS) - NOW INCLUDED IN RHEL 5 ADVANCED SERVER AND ENTERPISE SERVER
An open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all major server and storage platforms supported by Red Hat. The leading (and first) cluster file system for Linux, Red Hat GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry adoption, broadest application support, and best price/ performance of any Linux cluster file system today.
Red Hat GFS allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and overhead of managing redundant data copies. Red Hat GFS has no single point of failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.
Red Hat GFS is tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and distributed through Red Hat Network. This simplifies software installation, updates, and management. Applications such as Oracle 9i RAC, and workloads in cluster computing, file, web, and email serving can become easier to manage and achieve higher throughput and availability with Red Hat GFS.
Highlights:
Performance:
Red Hat GFS helps Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers achieve high IO throughput for demanding applications in database, file, and compute serving. Performance can be incrementally scaled for hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using Red Hat GFS and storage area networks constructed with iSCSI or Fibre Channel.
Availability:
Red Hat GFS has no single-point-of-failure: any server, network, or storage component can be made redundant to allow continued operations despite failures. In addition, Red Hat GFS has features that allow reconfigurations such as file system and volume resizing to be made while the system remains on-line to increase system availability. Red Hat Cluster Suite can be used with GFS to move applications in the event of server failure or for routine server maintenance.
Ease of Management:
Red Hat GFS allows fast, scalable, high througput access to a single shared file system, reducing management complexity by removing the need for data copying and maintaining multiple versions of data to insure fast access. Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (As, ES, and WS) and Cluster Suite, delivered via Red Hat Network, and supported by Red Hat's award winning support team, Red Hat GFS is the world's leading cluster file system for Linux.
Capabilities:
- Scalable to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
- Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and delivered via Red Hat Network,
- Supports IA-32, IA-64, and AMD Opteron processors.
- Works with Red Hat Cluster Suite to provide high availability for mission-critical applications.
- Quota system for cluster-wide storage capacity management.
- Direct IO support allows databases to achieve high performance without traditional file system overheads.
- Dynamic multi-pathing to route around switch or HBA failures in the storage area network.
- Dynamic capacity growth while the file system remains on-line and available.
- Can serve as a scalable alternative to NFS.
Product Information:
Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS. Red Hat Cluster Suite support available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Support for a wide variety of Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area network products from leading switch, HBA, and storage array vendors.
Mature, industry-leading, field-proven, open source cluster file system. |
| Red Hat Cluster Suite Red Hat Cluster Suite - NOW INCLUDED IN RHEL 5 ADVANCED SERVER
A member of the Red Hat Applications product family. It provides two distinct types of clustering:
Cluster Manager - Provides high availability for applications using failover technology.
IP Load Balancing - Provides the ability to load balance incoming IP network requests across a farm of servers.
Red Hat Cluster Suite was designed specifically for Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Companies requiring applications to be highly available, or wishing to improve the performance and availability of their network infrastructure, should consider using a Red Hat Cluster Suite configuration.
Red Hat Cluster Suite is supported for use with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES on all platforms except mainframe and i-series. The level of support is inherited from the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription. The product is available exclusively as a download. |
| Red Hat Application Server Red Hat Application Server is an open source middleware platform, layered between the operating system and applications, that provides the foundation for linking systems and resources dispersed across the network. It comprises a runtime system and associated development libraries for creating and deploying Java-based Web applications with dynamic content.
By isolating applications from the operating system, Red Hat Application Server makes Web application development less complex, allowing developers to focus on business logic code rather than infrastructure code such as memory management, multi-threading, and resource allocation. In addition, it improves runtime efficiency by simultaneously managing access to distributed resources for many Web applications.
Based upon JOnAS, ObjectWeb's J2EE-certified open source application server, Red Hat Application Server integrates with Red Hat Enterprise Linux to lower operational costs and deliver a robust platform. This solution gives customers the ability to choose an open source solution based on budget and business need while protecting their existing J2EE investments. And because it runs on commodity hardware platforms such as i386, AMD64/Intel EM64T, Itanium, and IBM POWER series, Red Hat Application Server allows customers to use less expensive hardware for their Java applications as well.
Created as part of Red Hat's Open Source Architecture, Red Hat Application Server runs seamlessly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. That means customers can now receive their application server updates and maintenance through Red Hat Network just as they do for their operating system. And when global, enterprise-class support is needed, customers have the convenience of calling a single source - Red Hat.
Red Hat Application Server includes:
- JOnAS, ObjectWeb's J2EE-certified application server, with Web-based adminstration
- Tomcat, the Reference Implentation of Java Servlet 2.4 and JavaServerPages 2.0 technologies
- Struts, a framework for building Java Web applications
- Support for all major commercial JVMs (Sun, IBM, and BEA)
- Support for Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL databases (JDBC 2.0 drivers are available from your database vendor)
- Supporting modules for file uploads, AJP
- Tutorials for JOnAS and Struts Web application usage with multiple examples
Red Hat Application Server includes most of the commonly used features and functionality found in commercial J2EE application servers:
- Enterprise application server (JOnAS): EJBs
- Web application server (Tomcat): JSPs and Servlets
- Red Hat Developer Suite: Eclipse + Red Hat plug-ins
- Web services: through AXIS from Apache Jakarta
- Server management: using JMX (JOnAS/Tomcat)
- Scalability: pooling, caching, and storage optimization
- Messaging and transaction support
- Load balancing and high availability at the Web and EJB container levels; failover at the Web container level
- Supports commodity architectures: i386, AMD64/Intel EM64T, Itanium and IBM POWER series
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| Red Hat Directory Server Red Hat Directory Server is an LDAP-based server that centralizes application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information into an operating system-independent, network-based registry. Forming the central repository for an Identity Management infrastructure, Red Hat Directory Server simplifies user management, eliminating data redundancy and automating data maintenance. It also improves security, by storing policies and access control information, Red Hat Directory Server creates a single authentication source across entire enterprise for both intra- and extranet applications.
Features Overview:
- Centralizes management of people and their profiles, thus reducing administrative costs
- Acts as a central repository for user profiles and preferences, enabling personalization
- Allows 4-way multi-master replication of data across the enterprise, providing a centralized, consistent data source available to enterprise applications
- Enables single sign-on access with a partner solution
- Provides scalability for massive numbers of users by containing the information control required for developing extranet applications
Provides full support for 64-bit HP-UX and Solaris platforms.
Directory Server is available for the following operating environments:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (X86), 32-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (X86), 32-bit
- Solaris 9 (SPARC), 32-bit
- Solaris 9 (SPARC), 64-bit
- HP-UX 11i for HP-9000 and HP Integrity servers, 64-bit |
| Red Hat Certificate System A security infrastructure requires a scalable and manageable authentication system to ensure that only authorized users and applications have access to mission critical resources and data. Red Hat Certificate System, a component of the Open Source Architecture, provides a powerful security framework to guarantee the identity of users and ensure privacy of communications. Red Hat Certificate System handles all major functions of the certificate life cycle, and simplifies enterprise-wide deployment and adoption of a robust security architecture.
Formerly known as Netscape Certificate Management System, Red Hat extends the scalability, security, and ease of use provided by Netscape Security Solutions with the choice and value provided through the Open Source Architecture.
Red Hat Certificate System Capabilities:
- Supports all aspects of deploying and maintaining a Public Key Infrastructure for managing user identities: issue, renew, suspend, revoke and manage single and dual-key certificates
- Integrates easily with third-party security software and existing applications through published APIs
- Enables clients and servers to communicate to the Certificate Management System via Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for revocation checking
- Allows administrators to request and install certificates onto smart cards, in real time, with minimal interaction from end users
- Scales to manage millions of digital certificates
- Supports key recovery for retrieval in the case of corrupted encryption keys
- Supports distributed architecture for high availability
- Supports cross certification with other PKI deployments
- Supports use of Visa Open Platform compliant smart cards (tokens) to simplify key management.
- Certificate System is available for the following operating environments:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (X86), 32-bit
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (X86), 32-bit
- Solaris 9 (SPARC), 32-bit
- Solaris 9 (SPARC), 64-bit
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