The RHN Push application allows you to serve custom packages associated with a private RHN channel through the RHN Satellite Server. If you want the RHN Satellite Server to serve only official Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages, you do not need to install RHN Push.

To use RHN Push, install the rhnpush package and its dependencies. This package is available to registered RHN Satellite Server systems and is installed by running up2date rhnpush.

RHN Push uploads RPM header information to the RHN Satellite Server database and places the RPM in the RHN Satellite Server package repository. Unlike the RHN Proxy Server's RHN Package Manager, RHN Push never distributes package information, even the headers, beyond the RHN Satellite Server database.