Managed Software Channel Details - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT Manual

Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management
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 Software
Channels on the left navigation bar. This button opens the Software Channel Management
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 3, "Managed Software Channel Details"

3. Managed Software Channel Details

Virtually all custom channel management tasks are carried out within the Managed Software
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 Channel 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 an
Organization Administrator or a Channel Administrator. 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.
• Managers — Lists users who have management permissions to the custom channel. This tab
appears for Organization Administrators and Channel Administrators. Select the checkboxes
of the users to be allowed full administration of this channel and click Update. This status
does not enable the user to create new channels. Note that Organization Administrators and
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