Mirroring Installation And Update Sources Using Smt; Getting Mirror Credentials - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE Manual

Mirroring Installation and
Update Sources Using SMT
SMT provides the possibility to mirror installation and update sources locally and to
bypass per-machine downloads and the bandwidth charges that go with it.

3.1 Getting Mirror Credentials

Before creating local mirrors of the repositories, you need to have proper mirror creden-
tials. You can get these credentials from the Novell Customer Center by following these
steps:
1 Visit Novell Customer Center at
log in.
2 Click on My Products. The list of product families is shown.
3 Expand any product family by clicking on its name. You can also expand all
product families by clicking on the icon showing the arrow with two converse
arrowheads (with the Expand All Product Families tooltip). Products in the ex-
panded families are shown.
4 Double click on any specific product in the list to show detailed information
about the product.
5 In the Downloads section, click on the Mirror Credentials link.
http://www.novell.com/center

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