What support does the Subscription Management Tool offer for staging?
The Subscription Management Tool offers support for minimal staging. Inside the Tool, there are two independent sets of repositories. The administrator can manipulate one view while keeping the other untouched, and then switch them as needed. One view can be used for testing available software updates against test devices, before being made available to other servers. If you have more extensive or complex staging needs, you should use ZENworks Linux Management or another equivalent product.
The Subscription Management Tool offers support for basic staging. Inside the Tool, there are three independent sets of repositories. The administrator can manipulate one view while keeping the others untouched, and then switch them as needed. One view is for current mirror of the repository, another one view can be used for testing available software updates against test devices, before being made available to other servers and the third one is for making the validated updates available to all production systems. If you have more extensive or complex staging needs, you should use ZENworks Linux Management or another equivalent product.
