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Chapter 9. Multiple Organizations
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Figure 9.1. Centralized Satellite Management for Multi-Department Organization
9.1.2. Decentralized Management of Multiple Third Party
Organizations
In this example, the Satellite is maintained by a central group, but each organization is treated
separately without relations or ties to the other organizations on the Satellite. Each organization may
be a customer of the group that manages the Satellite application itself.
While a Satellite consisting of sub-organizations that are all part of the same company may be
an environment more tolerant of sharing systems and content between organizations, in this
decentralized example sharing is less tolerable. Administrators can allocate entitlements in specific
amounts to each organization. Each organization will have access to all Red Hat content synced to the
Satellite if the organization has software channel entitlements for the content.
However, if one organization pushes custom content to their organization, it will not be available to
other organizations. You cannot provide custom content that is available to all or select organizations
without re-pushing that content into each organization.
In this scenario, Satellite Administrators may want to reserve an account in each organization to have
login access. For example, if you are using Satellite to provide managed hosting services to external
parties, you could reserve an account for yourself so to access systems in that organization and push
content.