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Chapter 7. Red Hat Network Website
For example, administrators can standardize their desktop systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 for
x86, while managing servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 for AMD64 and EM64T. Administrators
can stay on their version for the duration of the EUS support lifecycle, assured of the behavior of their
software version. Additionally, administrators can install critical software updates without introducing
bugs from untested new features or software.
7.6.1.2. Child Channels
A child channel is a channel associated with a base channel that contains extra packages. For
instance, an organization can create a child channel associated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for
the x86 architecture that contains extra packages needed only for the organization, such as a custom
engineering application.
A system can be subscribed to multiple child channels of its base channel. Only packages included
in a system's subscribed channels can be installed or updated on that system. Further, RHN Satellite
and RHN Proxy Server customers have channel management authority. This authority gives them
the ability to create and manage their own custom channels. Refer to the RHN Channel Management
Guide for details.
Channels can be further broken down by their relevance to your systems, including All Channels, Red
Hat Channels, Popular Channels, My Channels, Shared Channels, and Retired channels.
7.6.1.3. All Channels
Channels", the All Channels page is shown by default when you
Figure 7.17, "All
As shown in
click Software Channels in the navigation bar. It displays a list of all channels available to your
organization. Links within this list go to different tabs of the Software Channel Details page. Clicking
on a channel name takes you to the Details tab. Clicking on the number of packages takes you to the
Packages tab. Clicking on the number of systems takes you to the Subscribed Systems tab. Refer to
Section 7.6.1.9, "Software Channel Details"
for details.
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