Recognizing different Red Hat Enterprise Linux types

scott_thornhill · ‎Oct 23, 2023

There are a couple of other posts asking about satellite server and connecting to FNMS. These are not quite where I need to be.

Is there a way for FNMS to determine the difference between various type of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server?

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There is a difference between Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and other various add on's. I would like to be able to tell when SAP is deployed vs RHEL Server. Is this possible?

alexander_frit · ‎Oct 24, 2023

@scott_thornhill
The only thing that comes into my mind is to check the installed RPM packages on a server to determine the use of several special RHEL repositories for SAP App/Sol or High Availability.
For SAP Apps/Sol you can check for packages mentioned in following article: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3082481
For High Availability it would be usually packages like: pcs, pacemaker, fence-all-agents, corosync
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/45930

In FNMS you can check the RAW evidences for those packages and where they are installed. Based on that you can allocate the correct RHEL licenses

scott_thornhill · ‎Oct 24, 2023

I’ll see if I can setup recognition for tuned-profiles-sap-2.20.0-1.el8.noarch. It would be nice if FNMS could perform the same as it does for Microsoft server editions.

when i find tuned profiles sap is there a way to automatically relate those RHEL Servers to the new application and not be part of the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux server?

alexander_frit · ‎Oct 24, 2023

You can create your local applications for those SAP components.
Afterwards you can make a local application suite (e.g. RHEL with SAP Solutions ) that bundles the SAP component and normal RHEL OS detection. That application suite could be linked to the RHEL SAP Sol license.
Or, you are creating a RHEL for SAP solution license that bundles both applications as necessary for the comsumption.
In both cases you have to keep track of version changes of the components.