Healthcare Company Simplifies Infrastructure Management with Red Hat Satellite
“From 100+ servers to one centralized system.”
The client
A large healthcare company with a network of 20 hospitals nationwide, serving over one million patients each year and supporting a medical community of over five thousand employees.
The challenge
The organization’s RHEL-based infrastructure required labor-intensive manual patching and updates to ensure minimum security compliance, requiring the equivalent of one full-time employee.
The results
Shadow-Soft eliminated the need for constant manual oversight by architecting an environment that enables the organization to manage 100+ servers via one centralized system.
The Shadow Soft Approach: 2-Week Transformation
Phase 1: Assess
Shadow-Soft engineers created an architecture plan that would enable the organization’s infrastructure to shift from manually updating resources and infrastructure to a fully automated system that identifies critical security patch updates & errata and manages entitlements & subscriptions.
Phase 2: Develop a vision and implement
Shadow-Soft engineers implemented Red Hat Satellite 6 into the organization’s existing platform to enable a secure and fully data compliant process.
During the implementation phase, Shadow-Soft engineers:
- Created a Sync Plan that ensures repositories on all Satellite servers are automatically updated
- Implemented SDLC model, including Dev, QA, and Production environments that allow for safe deployments and rollbacks
- Created Activation Keys to automate the registration of hosts to the Satellite server
- Configured Host Collection to enable bulk operations and updates
- Migrated subscription management from the Red Hat customer portal to the Satellite server
Phase 3: Enablement through knowledge transfer
Shadow-Soft engineers prepared the organization’s in-house team to manage their infrastructure:
- Quick start reference guide – for common Satellite server tasks and troubleshooting
- Templates – to enable quick implementation of future updates
- Best practices – to handle patching, managing errata and rollback errata updates in the event of failure
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