Configuring Clients Using Autoyast Profile - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE Manual

Interactive
Use ask to open a pop-up menu during installation where you can specify the
path to the certificate. Do not use this option with AutoYaST. Example:
regcert=ask
Deactivate Certificate Installation
Use done if either the certificate will be installed by an add-on product, or if
you are using a certificate issued by an official certificate authority. Example:
regcert=done
WARNING: Beware of Typing Errors
Make sure the values you enter are correct. If regurl has not been specified
correctly, the registration of the update source will fail.
If a wrong value for regcert has been entered, you will be prompted for a
local path to the certificate. In case regcert is not specified at all, it will default
to http://FQDN/smt.crt with FQDN being the name of the SMT server.
WARNING: Change of SMT Server Certificate
If the SMT server gets a new certificate from a new and untrusted CA, the
clients need to fetch the new CA certificate file. This is done automatically with
the registration process but only if a URL was used at installation time to fetch
the certificate, or if the regcert parameter was omitted and thus, the default
URL is used. If the certificate was loaded using any other method, such as
floppy or local path, the CA certificate will not be updated.
7.2 Configuring Clients Using
AutoYaST Profile
Clients can be configured to register with SMT server via AutoYaST profile. For gen-
eral information about creating AutoYaST profiles and preparing automatic installation,
refer to Installation and Administration. In this section, only SMT specific configuration
is described.
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