Entitlement

The entitlement that a system gets tells the satellite server what can be done for 

the system, what it is entitled to. In the current Red Hat Network and satellite 

server there are three levels of entitlement:

Update   The entry level entitlement, complimentary with Red Hat Network 

subscription, most appropriate for single or few systems

Management   Includes Update entitlement features plus additional features 

that enable more efficient system grouping, management, and channel 

definition to support larger numbers of systems

Provisioning   Includes Management entitlement features plus additional 

features that provide for full Linux infrastructure life cycle management

Note:

 For the most current information about RHN entitlement levels, 

please refer to the Red Hat Web site: 

http://www.redhat.com/rhn

With each higher entitlement more functions of the satellite server/RHN become 

available. And you can change entitlement levels whenever necessary.

Channel

A channel is a collection of updates. There are two sorts of channels: Base 

channels and child channels.

A base channel consists of a list of packages based on a specific architecture 

and Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. For example, all the packages in Red Hat 

Enterprise Linux 2.1 for the x86 architecture are a base channel.

A child channel is a channel associated with a base channel but contains extra 

packages. This way it is possible for an organization to use a base channel to 

create a child channel that will contain the base packages and extra packages 

specifically needed by the organization.

Action

Actions can be performed on clients from the satellite server. Since the rhnd 

daemon is running as root, even a reboot can be scheduled from the satellite 

server. Some actions that can be scheduled are:

Boot

Package update

Hardware properties update

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