CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ is making Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM) available at no additional cost with all RLC Pro subscriptions. Migrating fleets get a local mirror, curated content views, rollback and network provisioning before the first host is converted.

CIQ treats OS conversion and lifecycle tooling as separate workstreams

For RHEL, Oracle Linux and CentOS-family sources, CIQ's migrate2rlc script converts each host to RLC Pro within the same major version. The conversion changes what runs on the host. It leaves three questions open: where hosts pull packages afterward, which content each host group may install, and how teams build replacement machines. ELM answers all three, and CIQ advises putting that layer into the migration plan from the first week.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM), the fleet lifecycle tool bundled with RLC Pro, runs a forward-only dependency check on draft content views so incompatible libraries surface before a patch reaches any production host.

CIQ frames the problem around operators who say the patch, not the CVE, took production down. An update can pull in an incompatible library or bump a version another component depends on. The conflict information exists before deployment, but teams often see it only after the change is live.

ELM flags dependency conflicts on unshipped drafts

Hosts install from content views, which are named, versioned snapshots of the packages and versions that ship together. When an administrator forks a new view to bring in an update, ELM maps the change forward through it. Conflicts appear on the draft without a full re-walk of the dependency tree.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM) resolves subscription entitlement a single time, at the customer's mirror, whether the fleet has 200 hosts or 20,000.

Subscription authenticates against CIQ Depot at sync time

Customers point ELM at CIQ Depot with their credentials. The RLC Pro subscription governs which repositories they can mirror. Every content view built from that sync inherits the entitlement, as does every host that installs from the view.

The Depot share of the mirror sits alongside internal repositories and open repositories such as Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL). All three sync on the same schedule, and a content view draws from them as one catalog. Mirroring accepts any RPM-based distribution. Curation, dependency resolution and errata cover Enterprise Linux content only.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ is providing its Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM) at no additional charge to all RLC Pro subscriptions, giving fleet operators control over when packages reach production hosts.

ELM mirrors upstream repositories onto customer-owned storage

The tool sits between package sources and the hosts that install them. It mirrors upstream repositories onto infrastructure the customer already operates, whether connected or not, so hosts pull from that mirror rather than repeatedly querying off-site lists.

CIQ targets four weak points in the legacy Enterprise Linux model at fleet scale: vendor-wide curation that is not tailored to the customer, every host checking the same external list on its own, manual staging between dev and production, and custom RPMs that sit outside the curated repository and need hand-managed updates.