Using Test Environment - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE Manual

The links can be created using the ln -s command, for example: ln -s
'/MirrorTo/repo/$RCE/' '/srv/www/htdocs/repo/$RCE'

3.4 Using Test Environment

It is possible to mirror catalogs to a test environment instead of mirroring them the
production environment. The test environment can be used with a limited number of
client machines before the tested catalogs are moved to the production environment.
The test environment can be run on the main SMT server, no special server is needed
for that.
The testing evironment uses the same structure as the production environment, but it
is located in the /srv/www/htdocs/testing/ subdirectory.
To mirror to the testing environment, set the MirrorTo option in the /etc/smt
.conf file accordingly. If your standard mirror directory is located in the default
/srv/www/htdocs/ directory, set the MirrorTo to /srv/www/htdocs/
testing. For more information about the MirrorTo option and the /etc/smt
.conf file, see Section 6.2.1, "/etc/smt.conf" (page 37).
To register a client in the testing environment, modify the /etc/suseRegister
.conf on the client machine by setting:
register = command=register&testenv=1
To move the testing environment to the production environment, manually copy or
move it to the place of the production environment using the cp -a or mv command.
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