Spacewalk

Spacewalk is an open source Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

Software Content Management

Spacewalk manages software content updates for Red Hat derived distributions such as Fedora, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, within your firewall. You can stage software content through different environments, managing the deployment of updates to systems and allowing you to view at which update level any given system is at across your deployment. A clean central web interface allows viewing of systems and their software update status, and initiating update actions. What are the differences between Spacewalk and the Red Hat Network Satellite product? Read more.

Other Management Capabilities

In addition to software content management, Spacewalk provides provisioning and monitoring capabilities. It will enable you to kickstart systems, as well as manage and deploy configuration files. Spacewalk's monitoring feature allows you to view monitoring status for your systems alongside their software update status. Spacewalk also has virtualization capabilities to enable you to provision, control, manage, and monitor virtual Xen guests.

Providing Content to Geographically-Distributed Systems

Part of the Spacewalk project is the Spacewalk Proxy, the upstream of the Red Hat Network Proxy product. Multiple Spacewalk Proxies can connect to a central Spacewalk server and to cache and distribute content from the Spacewalk Server in various geographical locations, to reduce the load on the central server and improve download times for local systems.

An Open Community Project

Spacewalk is an open community project. Anyone can contribute to the project, lending a hand with ideas and feedback, contributing a patch, helping draft documentation, sharing your systems management use cases, or even testing. Sign up for our mailing list or join our IRC channel and say hello!

What is new in this release:

• This version runs on Fedora 19; support for Fedora 17 has been dropped.
• An auditing feature.
• Managed external PosgreSQL database.
• Further ABRT improvements. SCAP improvements.
• ISS features. Many bugfixes and RFEs.

What is new in version 1.9:

• This version adds Fedora 18 support, ABRT and SCAP improvements, WebUI Enhancements, new reports for spacewalk-reports, and new API calls.

What is new in version 1.8:

• This version added Fedora 17 support, Oracle XE 11g support, extended OpenSCAP functionality, server-side support for registering ARM clients, integration with SUSE Studio was added, basic ABRT notification, distribution-channel mapping that can be customized per organization, a view of systems requiring reboot, an extra packages view, the ability to download comps information in spacewalk-repo-sync, yum group operations, WebUI and usability improvements, and PostgreSQL improvements. Cobbler 2.0 is now packaged in Spacewalk repos.
• Archived actions now can be deleted.
• New API calls were provided.

What is new in version 1.7:

• Monitoring is now working on the PostgreSQL database backend.
• Both database backends are feature-comparable.
• OpenSCAP integration.
• Fully asynchronous clearing of orphaned monitoring data.
• Stock rhnpush is able to push Debian packages.
• A new spacewalk-clone-by-date tool.
• Numerous spacecmd enhancements.
• Improved messages printed when certificate activation fails.

What is new in version 1.6:

• IPv6 support; management and provisioning capabilities;
• support for Fedora 16 (server and client);
• kickstarting via Spacewalk Proxy with a CNAME;
• spacewalk-repo-sync supports --include and --exclude options;
• 16 new API calls;
• OSAD improvements;
• 5 security fixes;
• rhn-virtualization supports RHEV 3 hosts;
• spacewalk-reports supports a --where-
• option to filter records;
• spacecmd enhancements and bugfixes;
• preliminary support for cobbler 2.2.

What is new in version 1.5:

• It is possible to edit schedule of taskomatic jobs via WebUI.
• AutoYaST support was added.
• Fine-grained searching (the ability to disable fuzzy search) was implemented.
• The satellite-sync downloads rpm files in four concurrent threads.
• Spacewalk 1.5 can be installed on Fedora 15.
• Two API calls were modified.
• Four new API calls were added.
• 81 bugs were solved.