Call it Red Hat’s (Quote) forward spin velocity regarding Linux management tools. With competition such as Oracle offering full Red Hat support on their own products, Red Hat is now expanding and improving its Linux management footprint.
The leading Linux distributor told internetnews.com that it is rolling out online
monitoring tool this year Red Hat customers.
Rich Friedman, director of product management for the Red Hat Network, told internetnews.com the management tool is already in use with a select group of customers with expanded rollouts planned throughout the year.
“We provide a set of services that can monitor systems and we handle the
background work of collecting metrics, analyzing them, sending out
availability and performance alerts,” Friedman said. “We provide reporting
charting and history and even more capabilities in terms of managing how you
set up alerts and it’s all from an online perspective.”
News of Red Hat’s Linux system management initiatives come just days after Oracle announced earlier new Linux management capabilities to Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux customers.
Oracle claims that Management Pack for Linux does everything that Red Hat does with its Red Hat Network management product, and more. Plus, Oracle said, it’s a free add-on for its Unbreakable Linux subscribers.
Red Hat is also planning a major upgrade to its Red Hat Network (RHN) systems management platform this year. RHN 5.0 is expected around the same time as Red Hat’s flagship product Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5) is released.
“What we’ll be doing with RHN 5 is providing support and capabilities around
virtualization management,” Friedman said. [This includes] “focusing on what we do from a
Red Hat RHEL perspective and the capabilities we have and the ability to
control the system from a central place.”
And that’s what sets Red Hat apart from the competition, he said. It may also be a matter of approach.
The Oracle Management Pack for Linux, which is a module for Oracle’s existing Enterprise Manager product, includes broader capabilities for managing database and application components, according to Oracle.
Red Hat is taking a different angle than a one-console approach to managing all the enterprise components. “One console to serve all purposes is not as important as managing RHEL with
the best capabilities,” Friedman said. “That’s where we focus.”
And it’s not just Oracle with which Red Hat wants to contrast its approach. Freidman said Red Hat’s goal is to integrate with the big systems management vendors and work with
them in a complementary manner.
Though Red Hat’s goal is not be like the big systems management vendors, it is pursuing an effort to open up RHN so that it can manage more applications.
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