Provides the means to create and oversee channels containing configuration files. You must be a Configuration Administrator or Organization Administrator to view this section of the website. Like software channels, configuration channels store files to be installed on systems. Unlike software packages, various versions of configuration files may prove useful to a system at any given time. Further, RHN allows you to include variables, or macros, that allow you to treat your configuration files as templates that can be deployed across your organization, with the relevant values populated upon individual system installation.

Please note that whenever a configuration file is deployed via RHN, a backup of the previous file including its full path is made in the /var/lib/rhncfg/backups/ directory on the affected system. The backup retains its filename but has a .rhn-cfg-backup extension appended.