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6.6.1.4. Software Channel Details
If you click on the name of a channel, the Software Channel Details page appears. This
page is broken down into the following tabs:
6.6.1.4.1. Software Channel Details
⇒
Details
General information about the channel and the parent channel, if it is a child channel. This
is the first tab displayed when you click on a channel. It displays essential information
about the channel, such as summary, description, and architecture.
— In addition, a Globally Subscribable checkbox can be seen by Organization Admin-
istrators and Channel Administrators. This signifies the default behavior of every channel
allowing any user to subscribe systems to it. Unchecking this box and clicking Update
causes the appearance of a Subscribers tab, which may then be used to grant certain users
subscription permissions to the channel. Organization Administrators and Channel Admin-
istrators can always subscribe systems to any channel.
— Only customers with custom base channels may change their systems’ base channel
assignment. They may do this through the website in two ways:
•
Customers with a custom base channel may assign the system to that base channel.
•
Customers may revert system subscriptions from a custom base channel to the appropri-
ate distribution-based base channel.
Note
The system base channel’s distribution variant must match the variant installed on the
system. For example, a system that has Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS v.4 for x86 cannot
be registered to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v.4 for x86 base channel.
6.6.1.4.2. Software Channel Details
⇒
Subscribers —
List of users who have subscription permissions to the channel. This tab appears on two
conditions: First, the user must be an Organization Administrator or a Channel Adminis-
trator. Second, the Globally Subscribable checkbox on the Details tab must be unchecked,
thereby making the channel subscribable by user. On this tab, select the checkboxes of
the users to be allowed to subscribe systems to this channel and click Update . Note that
Organization Administrators and Channel Administrators automatically have subscription
access to all channels.