I would like to see an enhancement to the rhn applet. I manage several servers and I would like to be able to see at a glance from my workstation if any need attention. While the rhn.redhat.com site is very useful, I would rather have several rhn applets running on their own panel on my workstation, so that should one machine need some updates, I can click the red ! mark and launch the up2date agent via ssh on the particular server. I also think it is only fair to show the status of entitled machines.
Hum, a couple of points: - this does not scale, if you have 10 servers then you would have 10 icons in the task bar, very confusing, and takes too much screen estate - I don't think anything actually prevent already doing this, you can just ssh to the machine and launch the rhn-applet-gui this works as you describe except it's not handled automatically by the applet itself. - the web site is really the best way to manage set of servers, grouping facilities etc, are priomordial as soon as the number of machines increases. Trying to duplicate those at the applet level makes little sense. On the other hand we added a web launcher to the applet menu so that it's easy to go from an even raised by the applet to the web site which gives a complete overview of the machine states. So I don't think we will really try to extend the applet to support multiple machine, this doesn't seems to make much sense currently. thanks anyway, Daniel