Novell Customer Center - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

release notes. Read them at the end of the installation process. A successful test is also
a prerequisite for registering and updating online.
If you have multiple network interfaces, verify that the desired card is used to connect
to the Internet. If not, click Change Device.
To start the test, select Yes, Test Connection to the Internet and click Next. In the next
dialog, view the progress of the test and the results. Detailed information about the test
process is available via View Logs. If the test fails, click Back to return to the network
configuration to correct your entries.
If you do not want to test the connection at this point, select No, Skip This Test then
Next. This also skips downloading the release notes, configuring the customer center,
and updating online. These steps can be performed any time after the system has been
initially configured.

3.14.4 Novell Customer Center

Configuration
To get technical support and product updates, first register and activate your product.
Novell Customer Center Configuration provides assistance for doing so.
If you are offline or want to skip this step, select Configure Later. This also skips SUSE
Linux Enterprise online update.
In Include for Convenience, select whether to send unsolicited additional information
when registering. This simplifies the registration process. Click on Details to obtain
in-depth information about data privacy and the data collected.
Apart from activating and registering your product, this module also adds the official
update catalog to your configuration. This catalog provides fixes for known bugs or
security issues which can be installed via an online update.
To keep your catalogs valid, select Regularly Synchronize with Customer Center. This
option checks your catalogs and adds newly available catalogs or removes obsolete
ones. It does not touch manually added catalogs.
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