There are many channels in Red Hat Network. Some are available to all users, some are available to users in a particular organization, and others are available only to customers who have purchased access to them. Channels fall into three main categories:
Paid Service Channels - These channels are available to customers who have purchased access to them either directly or in conjunction with a particular Red Hat product. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a paid service channel.
Custom Channels - These channels are created by customers to manage custom packages. These channels, also known as private channels, appear only to the organization who creates them; they can never be accessed by anyone else.
For immediate and secure service, a customer may create a custom channel for an organization and host the channel on the organization's private RHN Satellite Server or RHN Proxy Server. This document focuses on that process.