Overview of hosts in orcharhino

A host is any Linux client that orcharhino manages. Hosts can be physical or virtual.

You can deploy virtual hosts on any platform supported by orcharhino, such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, libvirt, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, oVirt, Proxmox, RHV, and VMware vSphere.

With orcharhino, you can manage hosts at scale, including monitoring, provisioning, remote execution, configuration management, software management, and subscription management.

Browsing Hosts in orcharhino management UI

In the orcharhino management UI, you can browse all hosts recognized by orcharhino, grouped by type:

  • All Hosts – a list of all hosts recognized by orcharhino.

  • Discovered Hosts – a list of bare-metal hosts detected on the provisioning network by the Discovery plugin.

  • Content Hosts – a list of hosts that manage tasks related to content and subscriptions.

  • Host Collections – a list of user-defined collections of hosts used for bulk actions such as errata installation.

To search for a host, type in the Search field, and use an asterisk (*) to perform a partial string search. For example, if searching for a content host named server.example.com, click the Content Hosts page and type server* in the Search field. Alternatively, *ver* will also find the content host server.example.com.

orcharhino Server is listed as a host itself even if it is not self-registered. Do not delete orcharhino Server from the list of hosts.

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