How It Works - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE SERVER 4.1.0 Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction
a specific architecture and Red Hat release. A child channel is a channel associated with
a base channel that contains extra packages.
Organization Administrator — An Organization Administrator is a user role with the
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highest level of control over an organization's Red Hat Network account. Members of
this role can add other users, systems, and system groups to the organization as well
as remove them. A Red Hat Network organization must have at least one Organization
Administrator.
INCLUDE — A Channel Administrator is a user role with full access to channel man-
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agement capabilities. Users with this role are capable of creating channels, assigning
packages to channels, cloning channels, and deleting channels. This role can be assigned
by an Organization Administrator through the Users tab of the RHN website.
Red Hat Update Agent — The Red Hat Update Agent is the Red Hat Network client
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application (
up2date
for the client system on which the application is run.
Traceback — A traceback is a detailed description of "what went wrong" that is useful
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for troubleshooting the RHN Satellite Server. Tracebacks are automatically generated
when a critical error occurs and are mailed to the individual(s) designated in the RHN
Satellite Server's configuration file.
For more detailed explanations of these terms and others, refer to the Red Hat Network
Reference Guide.

1.4. How it Works

RHN Satellite Server consists of the following components:
Database — for the Stand-Alone Database, this may be the organization's existing
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database or, preferably, a separate machine. RHN Satellite Server 4.1.0 supports Oracle
9i R2. For the Embedded Database, the database comes bundled with RHN Satellite
Server and is installed on the same machine as the Satellite during the installation
process.
RHN Satellite Server — core "business logic" and entry point for Red Hat Update
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Agent running on client systems. The RHN Satellite Server also includes an Apache
HTTP Server (serving XML-RPC requests).
RHN Satellite Server Web interface — advanced system, system group, user, and chan-
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nel management interface.
RPM Repository — package repository for Red Hat RPM packages and custom RPM
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packages identified by the organization.
Management Tools:
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Database and file system synchronization tools
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) that allows users to retrieve and install new or updated packages
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