How do you organize nodes in Satellite?

[JohnAdams]

Hi, folks,

I'm relatively new to Satellite and am trying to organize my hosts.

We've got a fairly simple shop in which I do almost no lifecycle management of internally-built applications.  We've got test/dev machines and production machines, and a variety of versions.

My next task is organizing patching. I want to patch test/dev a week ahead of production. The simplest way to do that seems to be to create host collections for test/dev and for production.

But that seems very obvious and maybe sub-optimal, so let me ask: How would you organize this?

Thanks,

John A

[sergiodcm]

Check Host Collections and Bookmarks.

[JohnAdams]

So my naïve approach of putting test machines into a host collection and production machines into a host collection is actually the right way to go at this? I'm pleasantly shocked!

Say a word or two about how I'd use bookmarks with them. I'm not seeing that instantly.

[sergiodcm00]

Bookmarks makes your life easy in remote execution form. Its not necesary (you can write the search at "Search query" box) but for me its easiest to use bookmarks.