Red Hat: Identity Management Server Setup and HA on RHEL 7

Introduction Red Hat Identity Management Server provides is a centralized identity management server for Linux, Mac, Windows. In this post we are going to setup and configure a HA deployment of Red Hat IDM on two RHEL 7.x servers. Red Hat Identity Management Server is based on the upstream project, FreeIPA. Prerequisites Only a couple … Continue reading Red Hat: Identity Management Server Setup and HA on RHEL 7

OpenSCAP Part 3: Running Scans from the Command Line in RHEL 7

Introduction In part 1 of this series we were introduced to OpenSCAP and the process of running scans via the SCAP workbench. In part 2, we explored concepts and components that define security/vulnerability scans. In this 3rd post we are going to dive into the command line operation. Let's get started with oscap. Installing oscap In … Continue reading OpenSCAP Part 3: Running Scans from the Command Line in RHEL 7

OpenSCAP Part 2: SCAP Content for RHEL 7

Introduction In part one of the OpenSCAP series we were introduced to the basic usage of the OpenSCAP toolset. In that post we learned how to run a basic scan via the scap-workbench in a desktop environment. This post will focus on the Content, Profiles, and Targets. Content All content will be installed in the … Continue reading OpenSCAP Part 2: SCAP Content for RHEL 7

OpenSCAP Part 1: Introduction and Basic Usage for RHEL 7/CentOS 7/Fedora

Introduction OpenSCAP is a standardized compliance solution for Linux. It is comprised of policies (NIST, STIG, etc) and tooling (oscap, scap-workbench) that allow you to scan and evaluate Linux hosts in order to validate their compliance with industry defined standards. In addition to providing industry standard compliance rules, OpenSCAP also allows administrators to create custom … Continue reading OpenSCAP Part 1: Introduction and Basic Usage for RHEL 7/CentOS 7/Fedora

Red Hat Satellite 6.x: Restarting Services

Introduction Red Hat Satellite consists of a number of running services. Restarting each service manually can be painful. Luckily you can use the commands below to easily restart all services. List Services Run the command below to view a list of all Satellite services that are started at boot. # katello-service list Redirecting to 'foreman-maintain … Continue reading Red Hat Satellite 6.x: Restarting Services

RHEL7: Install RHV Guest Agent and Drivers

About the Guest Agent The RHEL 7.x virtual machine guest agent in RHV 4.x provides  drivers, additional data, and functionality once installed on a RHEL virtual machine. The guest agent includes: virtio-net paravirtualized network driver virtio-scsi paravirtualized HDD driver virtio-balloon driver which improves memory overcommit (currently not used by RHV) rhevm-guest-agent common which allows RHV … Continue reading RHEL7: Install RHV Guest Agent and Drivers

Red Hat Satellite: Create and Publish Content Views for RHEL + OpenStack

Overview In this post I will review the process of creating Content Views (CV), Composite Content Views (CCV), publishing each view, and creating lifecycles. Note that in this post we are working with Red Hat Satellite 6.4, in which there was a major overhaul of the WebUI. You may have noticed that all menus are now … Continue reading Red Hat Satellite: Create and Publish Content Views for RHEL + OpenStack