Introduction - Novell SLRS 8 Admin Manual

1 Introduction

The SUSE LINUX Retail Solution 8 (SLRS 8) for Point of Sale (POS) Retail
Systems is based on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8) and pro-
vides a complete SUSE LINUX operating system and management solution
for POS Cash Register Systems (CR). The SLRS architecture was designed to
use a central administration server for deployment and management and a
branch server infrastructure in each branch (office) for preinstall or in-store
deployment.
The administration server provides the following features:
Central LDAP directory to manage POS terminals and servers
Global and default parameters and application configuration
POS Image creation and release management
The branch server provides the following features:
Software transport for OS and application updates
Multicast boot infrastructure for POS terminals
Diskless and diskful POS clients
AutoYaST installation and online update for server OS
Option: Two-node high availability cluster with replicated data
Because this document comprises conceptual and user information, the fol-
lowing list of topics is provided for the reader:
Architectural Overview — Chapter 2: The purpose of this chapter is
to provide an overview of the concept of the SLRS and the interaction of
the several components.
Quick Start Guide — Chapter 3: Best point to start with the SLRS.
All about Servers — Chapters 4, 6, and 7: The topics of these chap-
ters are the server structure, the SLRS LDAP directory service, the POS-
related server commands, and the PosAdmin commands for manipulat-
ing the LDAP directory entries.
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