Configuring Clients To Use Smt - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE Manual

Configuring Clients to Use
SMT
Any machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise SP2 or later can be configured to register
against SMT and download software updates from there instead of communicating di-
rectly with the Novell Customer Center and the NU servers.
If your network includes an SMT server to provide a local update source, you need to
equip the client with the server's URL. As client and server communicate via the HTTPS
protocol during registration, you also need to make sure the client trusts the server's
certificate. In case you set up your SMT server to use the default server certificate, the
CA certificate will be available on the SMT server at http://FQDN/smt.crt . In
this case you do not have to care about the certificate: The registration process will
automatically download the CA certificate from there, unless configured otherwise.
You have to enter a path to the server's CA certificate if the certificate was issued by
an external certificate authority.
NOTE: Registering Against *.novell.com Subdomain
If you try to register against any *.novell.com subdomain, the certificate
will not be downloaded during registration for security reasons, and certificate
handling will not be done. In such a case, use a different domain name or a
plain IP address.
There are several ways to provide this information and to configure the client machine
to use SMT. The first way is to provide the needed information via kernel parameters
at boot time. The second way is to configure clients using an AutoYaST profile. There
is also a script, clientSetup4SMT.sh, which can be run on a client to make it

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