Registering The Server In The Novell Customer Center; Prerequisites; Registering The Server In The Novell Customer Center (Command Line) - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual

7.3 Registering the Server in the Novell
Customer Center
Before you can patch an OES 2 SP2 server with updates from Novell, you must register the server
either during installation or later by using the instructions in this section.
If you register through evaluation codes, your server can receive patches for only 60 days, at which
point the codes expire. You need to register each server with the Novell Customer Center only once.
After you have registered the server, you can update the server at any time. This includes replacing
evaluation codes with purchased codes. You can use the desktop interface (GUI) or the command
line to accomplish this task.
This section contains the following information:
Section 7.3.1, "Prerequisites," on page 149
Section 7.3.2, "Registering the Server in the Novell Customer Center (Command Line)," on
page 149
Section 7.3.3, "Registering the Server in the Novell Customer Center (GUI)," on page 150

7.3.1 Prerequisites

To complete these procedures, you must have the following:
A Novell Customer Center account or access to an account.
For more information about creating a Novell Customer Center account, see
Account" in the Novell Customer Center User Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/
ncc/ncc/data/b5exp8k.html#b5exj2f). (This is the same account that you use for Bugzilla.)
The activation codes for SLES and OES 2 SP2 that you received when you purchased your
product.
An established connection to the Internet.

7.3.2 Registering the Server in the Novell Customer Center

(Command Line)
To register a new server or to replace evaluation activation codes with standard codes.
1 Log in to the server as
2 At the command line, enter
suse_register -a email=email_address -a regcode-
sles=SLES_registration_code -a regcode-oes=oes2_registration_code
For example:
suse_register -a email=joe@example.com -a regcode-sles=4adab769abc68 -a
regcode-oes=30a74ebb94fa
IMPORTANT: If you are replacing evaluation codes with purchased codes, simply enter the
codes. No further action is required.
or su to
root root
"Creating an
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