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Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management
4. Have the user log in to the Red Hat Network website, click the
Channels
tab on the
top navigation bar, and ensure the
Manage Software Channels
button appears on
the corresponding left navigation bar.
4.2. Manage Software Channels
In addition to the buttons and pages available to standard RHN Management-level users,
RHN Satellite Server and RHN Proxy Server customers also have access to
Manage Soft-
ware Channels
on the left navigation bar. This button opens the
Software Channel Man-
agement
interface, where all custom software channel management work occurs.
Warning
If you use both RHN Proxy Server and RHN Satellite Server, manage custom channels
and packages
only
on the Satellite, since the Proxy servers receive updates directly from
it. Manually managing packages and channels on a Proxy in this combined configuration
risks putting your servers out-of-sync.
Clicking links within the
Software Channel Management
list takes you to different tabs
of the
Managed Software Channel Details
page. Clicking a channel name opens the
Details
tab, while clicking its number of packages opens the
List/Remove
subtab of the
Packages
tab. Refer to Section 4.3
Managed Software Channel Details
for a full explana-
tion of these areas.
4.3. Managed Software Channel Details
Virtually all custom channel management tasks are carried out within the
Managed Soft-
ware Channel Details
page, accessed by clicking
Manage Software Channels
on the left
navigation bar and then selecting the name of channel to be altered. This page consists of
two primary tabs:
Details
and
Packages
.
•
Details
— Provides basic information about the channel, such as its parent channel,
name, summary, and description. Some of this information is modifiable. In addition,
a
Globally Subscribable
checkbox can be seen by Organization Administrators 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 Chan-
nel
causes the appearance of a
Subscribers
tab, which is used to grant certain users
subscription permissions to the channel.
•
Subscribers
— Presents a list of users who have subscription permissions to the custom
channel. This tab appears when two conditions are true. First, the logged in user must be