When managing mixed environments with both traditional and image-based RHEL systems, apply consistent operations and tracking across your entire infrastructure.

Red Hat Lightspeed inventory provides a unified view of RPM, image mode, and OSTree-based systems to enable streamlined system management. Red Hat Lightspeed unifies all system types into a single, streamlined view. You can view and manage RPM (package mode), image mode, and OSTree-based systems from the same inventory page.

You can connect an image-based system to Red Hat Lightspeed in the following ways:

• Connect automatically during image building
• Use remote host configuration (rhc) to connect manually
• Use Red Hat Satellite to register the system

Image-based systems display additional metadata in inventory, including booted image digest, staged image information, available updates, and rollback image details.