Manage Software Channels; Managed Software Channel Details - Red Hat NETWORK 4.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENTT GUIDE Manual

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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,
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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
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channel. This tab appears when two conditions are true. First, the logged in user must be
Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management