Description of problem: Must like sosreport is a collector of data for a single RHEL instance, I think satellite 6 could be used to manage the collection of system profiles (hardware and software) performance metrics (compare sys vs sys rates) with an aim towards making comparisons for supportability not just system management. I'd like to be able to do things like: 1) Turn on "perf" monitoring 2) Tcpdump between multiple host groups. 3) Run commands wrapped in monitoring (perf, tcpdump, etc) 5) Get some kind of aggregated data reporting back in graphical (and raw) form. 6) Compare software versions between hosts. 7) Compare loaded kernel modules between hosts. 8) Compare configuration files between hosts. 9) Sosreport gathering across multiple hosts (RHEV kinda does this already) 10) Aggregate log events between selected hosts. I'm sure there may be more, or some of these which may be necessary. I'm starting this bugzilla as a point of gathering ideas that support may wish to use. These features may be "long term" features, but I figured that bringing this up earlier is better than later.
Since this issue was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.
Customers have asked for this type of feature repeatedly over the years as well. Aggregated root cause analysis and trending abilities that could be integrated with reporting would be highly useful. Goes towards the very old and original goal of Satellite: "Manage many systems like you do the one in front of you"
Thank you for your interest in Satellite 6. We have evaluated this request, and we do not expect this to be implemented in product in the forseeable future. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this, please feel free to contact Rich Jerrido or Bryan Kearney. Thank you.