Managed Software Channel Details - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.3.0 - CHANNEL MANAGEMENT Management Manual

Chapter 4. Custom Channel and Package Management
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"

4.3. 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 Channel Administrators
automatically have management access to all channels.
• Errata — Provides the errata associated with each of your custom channels. Just as Red Hat
Network produces and delivers errata updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux software, you deliver
errata updates to your custom channels as part of updating your servers with the latest code. This
tab contains subtabs that allow you to view, add, remove, and clone erratum: List/Remove, Add
and Clone. Note that cloning errata can be done only via RHN Satellite Server.
• List/Remove — Displays all of the errata currently associated with the custom channel and
provides a means to cancel that association. To remove errata from the channel, select their
checkboxes and click Remove Errata on the bottom right-hand corner of the page. A confirmation
page appears listing the errata to be removed. Click Confirm to complete the action.
• Add — Enables the addition of errata to the channel. All of the errata potentially applicable to the
channel are listed. To add errata to the channel, select the appropriate checkboxes and click Add
Errata. Refer to
Chapter 5, Custom Errata Management
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for a full explanation of these areas.
for a discussion of errata management.