SUSE Manager Proxy Registration
SUSE Manager Proxy systems are registered as traditional clients or as Salt clients using a bootstrap script. Migrating a traditionally registered Proxy system to a Salt Proxy system is not possible. Re-install the Proxy if you want to switch to Salt.
This procedure describes software channel setup and registering the installed SUSE Manager Proxy with an activation key as a SUSE Manager client.
Downloading Channels
Before you can select the correct child channels while creating the activation key, ensure you have completely downloaded the SUSE Manager Proxy 4 channel and all the recommended and mandatory SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 channels. |
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Create an activation key based on the
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.0-Pool
base channel. For more information about activation keys, see Creating Activation Key.Figure 1. Proxy Activation Key -
From the
Child Channels
listing select the recommended channels by clicking theinclude recommended
icon:-
SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP1-Pool
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SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP1-Updates
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP1-Pool
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP1-Updates
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.0-Pool
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.0-Updates
The
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.0-Updates
channel is mandatory.Figure 2. Base and Child Proxy Channel
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Modify a bootstrap script for the proxy if needed. If you want to run the proxy on a traditional client (system type
Management
) uncheckBootstrap using Salt
. Using Salt is the default. For more information about bootstrap scripts, see client-configuration:registration-bootstrap.adoc.Figure 3. Modifying Bootstrap Script -
Create the SUSE Manager Tools Repository for bootstrapping, see Create Tools Repository.
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Bootstrap the client with the bootstrap script. For more information, see client-configuration:registration-bootstrap.adoc.
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For Salt clients, accept the key on the
page by checking the appropriate checkbox. When accepted, it will appear in the . -
Navigate to
, and check that the four proxy channels (Pool
andUpdates
forSLE-PRODUCT
andSLE-MODULE
) plus the recommended channels are selected.SLE-PRODUCT-Pool
must be the base channel and the others are child channels.Figure 4. Proxy Channels
Continue with setting up the registered SUSE Manager: proxy-setup.adoc.