Other available features include the deployment of custom content to, and the provisioning, configuration, reporting, monitoring of client systems.
Users of these operating systems can then invoke the up2date or yum program to download and install updates from RHN.
On June 18, 2008, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following the Fedora/RHEL model.
Advanced lifecycle management; provisioning features, like bare metal PXE boot provisioning; and monitoring features (e.g. centralized CPU and disk usage) cannot be done over the Internet to the hosted RHN servers.
As of December 2009[update] the RHN Proxy Server costs $2,500 annually, and the RHN Satellite Server costs $13,500 annually, which includes the license for the embedded Oracle Database.