Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Features

This table lists the availability of various features on native Red Hat Enterprise Linux clients (without Expanded Support).

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is supported by Red Hat.

The icons in this table indicate:

  • the feature is available

  • the feature is not available

  • the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date

Table 1. Supported Features on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems
Feature RHEL 7 RHEL 8 RHEL 9

Client

System packages

Red Hat

Red Hat

Red Hat

Registration

Install packages

Apply patches

Remote commands

System package states

System custom states

Group custom states

Organization custom states

System set manager (SSM)

Product migration

N/A

N/A

N/A

System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)

System redeployment (Kickstart)

Contact methods

ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH

ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH

ZeroMQ, Salt-SSH

Works with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Proxy

Action chains

Staging (pre-download of packages)

Duplicate package reporting

CVE auditing

SCAP auditing

Package locking

System locking

Maintenance Windows

System snapshot

Configuration file management

Snapshots and profiles

Profiles supported, Sync not supported

Profiles supported, Sync not supported

Profiles supported, Sync not supported

Power management

Monitoring server

Monitored clients

Docker buildhost

Build Docker image with OS

Kiwi buildhost

Build Kiwi image with OS

Recurring Actions

AppStreams

N/A

Yomi

N/A

N/A

N/A

Product migration to matching SUSE Liberty Linux version.