Product feature

Streamline patches and address CVEs

Red Hat Lightspeed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux simplifies the patch management process by continually analyzing your systems and giving you a comprehensive view of all relevant Red Hat product advisories. You can prioritize critical advisories and deploy patches directly from the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console. To help you more effectively manage risks, Red Hat Lightspeed also provides a detailed list of CVEs that pose a threat to your environment, so you can quickly gauge system health, prioritize critical vulnerabilities, and create remediation plans.

Build images to speed up provisioning and reduce drift

Use package recommendations in the Red Hat Lightspeed image builder to create customized system images for virtual machines, cloud-based instances, and more. Image builder is also compatible with virtualization technologies and major cloud providers to help meet your operational requirements. With real-time monitoring, you’ll know instantly when configurations deviate from your standard operating environment (SOE), helping you reduce drift and establish a more consistent, predictable environment.

Maintain compliance, no matter where your systems live

If you’re running systems across regions with different and evolving data management standards, maintaining internal and external compliance requirements is a full-time job. The Red Hat Lightspeed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compliance service, based on the security content automation protocol (SCAP), lets you create, customize, and track multiple policies at once, and it gives you a view of individual systems’ compliance levels so you can quickly find and address potential issues. This gives you unparalleled control of your security and legal risk, and makes it easier to prepare for regulatory changes.

Customize notifications to focus on what matters most

With Red Hat Lightspeed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can integrate notifications directly into your preferred tools, so critical alerts go to the right people at the right time. These real-time notifications are powered by predictive analytics to help prioritize the most important information about your systems, and they occur within your existing workflows to reduce management complexity. Red Hat Lightspeed also provides guidance for custom integrations, so you can tailor notifications to your operational needs.

Track costs and usage across clouds

How are you tracking your cloud spend? Red Hat Lightspeed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux eliminates the guesswork, giving you a detailed view of your subscription usage in your whole environment, letting you get the most out of your investment. Once you have a clear picture of your subscriptions, you can use the built-in optimization service to make resource allocation decisions.

Increase operational efficiency with automated recommendations

As your enterprise grows, so does the risk of configuration errors. With its advisor service, Red Hat Lightspeed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux draws on more than 20 years of Red Hat support experience to find potential problems with your OS, infrastructure, and workloads, and it offers remediation solutions from a growing library of more than 1,800 recommendations.