I.                 ANNOUNCEMENT OVERVIEW

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Advanced Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the premier operating system for open source computing, and creates a reliable, secure, high performance platform designed for today's commercial environments—with capabilities that match or exceed those of proprietary operating systems.

  

At a Glance :

New offer contents

Delivery contents

              Software for IA64 & Documentations
              Software for IA32 & Documentations             

        
Installation
 
Known problems / Difficulties

Release_notes

Maintenance policy

·        Maintainability & Support strategy

·        Problem diagnose and reporting

·        Training

II.          NEW OFFER CONTENTS    GoTop 

The version of the operating system used is:

RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server  Version 3 Update3 (kernel 2.4.21-20.EL)

Or

RedHat Enterprise Linux WorkStation  version 3 Update3 (kernel 2.4.21-20.EL).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Features and Benefits

All products in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux family are based on a common software core--kernel, libraries, development toolchain, and utilities. This provides a homogeneous environment ideal for simplifying multi-system and desktop-to-datacenter configurations. The immediate benefit: simplified deployment of distributed applications, and a consistent environment for users and system administrators across the entire family.

• Support for multiple architectures:
  Intel X86, Intel Itanium
• 4-4 memory split:
  Increased kernel & user address space for X86 systems, allowing support for 64GB of main memory and larger user applications.
• Native Posix Thread Library:
  A new high-performance multi-threading capability provides improved performance for multi-threaded applications.
• Based on Linux 2.4.21 kernel:
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux uses the latest stable Linux kernel with numerous additions from the Linux 2.5/2.6 kernels.
• Improved scalability:
  Support for larger SMP, memory and I/O systems allows version 3 to support servers approximately twice the size of version 2.1.
• Forward compatibility:
  Version 3 includes compatibility libraries so it can run version 2.1 applications without modification.
• Standards and Certification:
  LSB 1.3 and NIAP Common Criteria, Section 508 support
• Improved desktop:
  Includes Red Hat's Bluecurve graphical user interface, and a comprehensive set of personal productivity applications.
• Enhanced security:
  Includes several new security features, including support for file system ACLs.
• Improved compiler/tools:
  Includes GCC 3.2 and debugging/profiling tools.
• Logical Volume Manager:
  Provides enterprise-strength storage management.
• Diskless systems:
  Supports deployment of diskless clients.
• Enhanced Java:
  Java implementations from BEA and IBM.
• Enhanced networking:
  Includes numerous features to improve stability & performance.
• Support for Samba 3 provides numerous new features:
  • Greatly improved interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory. Samba 3.0 is able to join an ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/Kerberos
  • Improved Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory
  • Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs
  • Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers
  • Support for client and server SMB signing to ensure compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings
  • Improved ACL mapping

For more information on these and other new features, please refer to the analysis.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Feature-Function-Benefit

Enterprise-focused release cycle

Red Hat Enterprise Linux family products have a release cycle specifically designed to provide a stable platform for all phases of an enterprise IT deployment. Major Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases will occur approximately every 12-18 months. This allows ISVs to focus on a common, stable platform, and customers to effectively plan migration and upgrade cycles.

Additionally, stable binary (ABI) and programming (API) interfaces are maintained for the life of each major release. This ensures that applications do not need to be modified or recertified during the life of the release.

Enterprise-class support

Red Hat Enterprise Linux products include a full year of support provided by Bull.

Red Hat Network

Red Hat Enterprise Linux products include one year of Red Hat Network's Update Module, a service that provides access to an intuitive graphical interface for managing system updates and errata, priority errata email notifications, dependency checking, and optional auto-update.

Extra packages

All Red Hat Enterprise Linux media kits include an Extras CD that provides easy access to a selection of packages that are not supported by Red Hat neither Bull. These, and additional packages that will be provided as they become available, may also be downloaded from the Red Hat Network "Extras" channel (included as part of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions).

The Extras CD includes IBM Java and BEA JRockit. The RHN Extras channel also provides MySQL and PostgreSQL server components (client-side components are included as part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution).

Languages

Focused on international standards, such as OpenI18N and GB18030, Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system has documentation and software available in 10 languages, including English, Japanese, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Italian, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish.

Product Package Differences

Red Hat Enterprise Linux products are based on the same core kernel, libraries and utilities, and also share the same major package sets. However, because Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS is not designed for use in server environments, there are some differences between family members in terms of their server package sets. The following table summarizes these differences.

Server Packages Included	AS	ES	WS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 included the following packages that are not part of RedHat Entreprise Linux Workstation 3 : amanda-server, arptables_jf, bind, caching-nameserver, dhcp, freeradius, inews, inn, krb5-server, netdump-server, openldap-servers, pxe, quagga, radvd, rarpd, redhat-config-bind, redhat-config-netboot, tftp-server, tux, vsftpd, ypserv	Yes	Yes	No

 

To simplify the text of this documentation, “Advanced Server” stands for “Advanced Server or

WorkStation” except if a restriction is explicitly introduced.

Note:

Bull delivery brings you CDs at the "Update 3" level defined by Red Hat®.

- Only CD1 is modified for the "Update 3" level.

- Source CDs are not.If needed, the latest source files are available at the

following URL:

http://updates.redhat.com  <!--[if !supportNestedAnchors]-->

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SOFTWARE FOR IA64 & DOCUMENTATIONS

REF	NAMING	VERS	COMMENTS
76741542-001	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3 Update 3	V3	kernel 2.4.21-20.EL. 9 CDs (4 binaires RPMS, 3 Sources, 1 Extra, 1 Doc)
76741557-001	Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS3 Update 3	V3	2.4.21-20EL 9 CDs (4 binaires RPMS, 3 Sources, 1 Extra, 1 Doc)
76741558-001	Bull Extention Pack for RHEL
DOCUMENTATIONS
86 A2 28EJ 01	SRB Novascale RHEL AS 3	V3
86 A2 28EJ 01	SRB Novascale RHEL WS 3	V3

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CERTIFICATION                                                        CERTIFICATION
RHEL AS3 kernel 2.4.21-20.EL	NS5xx0	NS4040	NS4020
test & operational	16 CPUs 1,3 GHz 16 GB RAM 2 IOBs	4 CPUs 1,3 GHz 8 GB RAM	2 CPUs 1,3 GHz 4 GB RAM
certification	16 CPUs 1,3 GHz 32 GB RAM	4 CPUs 1,3 GHz 8 GB mem	2 CPUs 1,4 GHz 4 GB RAM

Certifications are an on-going process, this chart reprents the current status, and may be updated at any time.

Refer to your Bull marketing sales representative to get latest updates.

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SOFTWARE  FOR IA32 & DOCUMENTATIONS

RHEL AS3 UPDATE3                       FOR IA32 EXPRESS 5800 SERIE
REF	NAMING	COMMENTS
76741543-001	Linux Red Hat AS 3 Update 3 for IA 32 (9 CDs)
Not Available	Linux Red Hat WS 3 Update 3 forIA 32 (9 CDs)
Not Available	Linux Red Hat ES 3 Update 3 pour IA 32 (9 CDs)
DOCUMENTATIONS (NO SRB AVAILABLE,USE GENERAL METHOD)

IV.         INSTALLATION    GoTop

NOVASCALE

-       Installation Guide and Documentation CD included in the Red Hat® distribution.

-          Booklets and documentations included in the various CDs.

-          SRB 86A228EJ00

EXPRESS 5800 :

-     Installation guide from RedHat

       http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/pdf/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en.pdf

  

V.             KNOWN PROBLEMS / DIFFICULTIES    GoTop

                         None

VI. RELEASES NOTES:      GoTop

For ALL VERSION, ALL SYSTEM   see this Web site :

http://www.redhat.com/security/notes/

VII. MAINTENANCE POLICY     GoTop

           VII-a  MAINTENABILITY & SUPPORT STRATEGY

Bull Open Systems Support Server

www.opensup.bull.com

             Customer may download fixes from RedHat Network

             https://rhn.redhat.com/

          VII-b PROBLEM DIAGNOSE AND REPORTING

               1) Report all problems  (24H x 7D)  using the Bull On Line Support  Site Web http://www.cs.bull.net/

               and then follow up in line support answer.

               2) Or call your Local Bull Representative.

           VII-c TRAINING

            Customer training information are available at http://www.bull.com/training/

For Bull internal use only, all information about training schedule and materials are available
from Bull Open Systems Support Training Server  

            http://epicentre.frec.bull.fr/training/

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