Integrating HP Software Delivery Repository with Red Hat Network Satellite™

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providing the necessary values on the input form. Care should be exercised to associate the new
channel with an appropriate parent channel. This association will make the channel visible and
usable to the subscribed systems. Consult the Red Hat Network Satellite documentation for
meanings of the various values.
HP Note
Subject to the documentation's noted limitations, name the channel
as specifically as possible. The use of specific names may help
avoid later conflicts, as well as make it easier to visually associate
the channel with the relevant target systems. (eg. HP PSP 8.31
RHEL5x86_64)
More information is available below in the Red Hat
Knowledgebase article “How do I create a custom child-channel
with custom packages for my satellite?” For GPG specific
information about the Software Delivery Repository, visit the
article’s FAQ section.
Populate the software content into the new channel
Use the "rhnpush" command to take the downloaded content (Step 9) and upload it into the newly
created software channel (Step 10) on your Red Hat Network Satellite platform. Consult the Red
Hat Network Satellite documentation for specific command-line arguments to use, but it should
be similar to the following:
rhnpush --channel=<NewChannelName> --dir=<SomeFileSystemPath><repositoryid> --
server=http://localhost/APP
The new custom channel and associated content is now visible for use by the target systems.
Associating the new custom channel with each existing target system can be accomplished and
verified from the Red Hat Network Satellite web interface. As noted in the Red Hat Network Satellite
documentation, assuming new system registrations are correctly configured to the main parent
channel in use, they should automatically subscribe to the new channels. Repeat the above steps for
each software product to integrate.