Subscription Management Tool for SLES 12 SP2
- About This Guide
- 1 SMT Installation
- 2 SMT Server Configuration
- 3 Mirroring Repositories on the SMT Server
- 4 Managing Repositories with YaST SMT Server Management
- 5 Managing Client Machines with SMT
- 6 SMT Reports
- 7 SMT Tools and Configuration Files
- 8 Configuring Clients to Use SMT
- 9 Advanced Topics
- A SMT REST API
- B Documentation Updates
About This Guide
Subscription Management Tool (SMT) for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 allows enterprise customers to optimize the management of SUSE Linux Enterprise software updates and subscription entitlements. It establishes a proxy system for SUSE® Customer Center with repository (formerly known as 'catalog') and registration targets. This helps you centrally manage software updates within the firewall on a per-system basis, while maintaining your corporate security policies and regulatory compliance.
SMT allows you to provision updates for all of your devices running a product based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. By downloading these updates only once and distributing them throughout the enterprise, you can set more restrictive firewall policies and, where applicable, avoid significant network usage stemming from repeated downloads of the same updates by each device. The tool is fully supported and available as a download to customers with an active SUSE Linux Enterprise product subscription.
Subscription Management Tool is a good choice for you if you:
need one tool that updates both SUSE Linux Enterprise and RedHat Enterprise Linux servers.
want to have a good overview of your company's license compliance.
do not want to connect all your machines to SUSE Customer Center to register and retrieve updates, for bandwidth or security reasons.
have SUSE Linux Enterprise hosts that are restricted and difficult to update without having to invent your own update management solutions.
need to integrate additional software update repositories (either external or internal) into your update solution.
want an out-of-the box staging solution for testing updates before releasing them to the clients.
want to have a quick overview of the patch status of your SUSE Linux Enterprise servers and desktops.
Figure 1: SMT #
1 Overview #
The Subscription Management Tool Guide is divided into the following chapters:
- SMT Installation
This chapter introduces the SMT installation process and the SMT Configuration Wizard. You can install the SMT add-on together with your base system during the installation process or on top of an already installed base system. The SMT Configuration Wizard guides you through the individual installation steps.
- SMT Server Configuration
This chapter introduces the YaST configuration module SMT Server. You can set and configure organization credentials, SMT database passwords, and e-mail addresses to send SMT reports, or set the SMT job schedule, and activate or deactivate the SMT service.
- Mirroring Repositories on the SMT Server
This chapter introduces the option to mirror the installation and update sources with YaST.
- Managing Repositories with YaST SMT Server Management
This chapter introduces the option to register client machines on SUSE Customer Center. The client machines must be configured to use SMT.
- SMT Reports
This chapter introduces generated reports based on SMT data. Generated reports contain statistics of all registered machines and products used and of all active, expiring, or missing subscriptions.
- SMT Tools and Configuration Files
This chapter introduces the most important scripts, configuration files and certificates shipped with SMT.
- Configuring Clients to Use SMT
This chapter introduces the option to configure any client machine to register against SMT and download software updates from there instead of communicating directly with the SUSE Customer Center.
2 Additional Documentation and Resources #
Chapters in this manual contain links to additional documentation resources that are available either on the system or on the Internet.
For an overview of the documentation available for your product and the latest documentation updates, refer to http://www.suse.com/documentation.
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4 文件慣例 #
本文件中使用以下注意事項與排版慣例︰
/etc/passwd：目錄名稱與檔案名稱保留字元：以實際的值來取代保留字元
PATH：環境變數 PATHls、--help：指令、選項和參數user：使用者或群組套件名稱 ︰套件的名稱
Alt、Alt–F1：供人按下的按鍵或案件組合；顯示的按鍵與鍵盤上一樣為大寫
、 › ：功能表項目、按鈕
Dancing Penguins (「Penguins」一章，↑另一本手冊)：這是對另一本手冊中某一章的參考。
必須具有
根權限才能執行的指令。通常，您也可以在這些指令前面加上sudo指令，以執行該指令。root #command沒有權限的使用者也可以執行的指令。
tux >command注意事項
Warning: 警告
繼續操作之前必須瞭解的重要資訊。提醒您注意安全問題、可能的資料遺失、硬體損毀或者實際危險。
Important: 重要說明
繼續操作之前應該瞭解的重要資訊。
Note: 備註
其他資訊，例如各軟體版本之間的區別。
Tip: 提示
有用的資訊，例如一條準則或實用的建議。