Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP2 Installation Manual page 162

Activation Codes for both SLES 10 and OES 2
A valid installation source
An established connection to the Internet
All of the services installed that you need on the server.
Enough disk space in
updates to.
Depending on the number of patches that you are going to apply, you might need about 3
GB.
A backup of the current data on the server.
2 Register the server in the Novell Customer Center (one time only).
2a Log in to the server as
2b 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
2c Verify that the server is registered by seeing whether you have the service types and
catalogs needed for updates.
To verify the service types, enter
rug sl
To verify that you have the catalogs you need, enter
rug ca
3 Update the server with all available updates:
3a Refresh all services by entering:
rug ref
3b See whether updates are available by entering:
rug lu SLES10-SP3-Updates OES2-SP2-Updates
3c Update the server with all available SLES 10 SP3 and OES 2 SP2 patches by entering:
rug up -t patch SLES10-SP3-Updates OES2-SP2-Updates
3d Repeat
When there are no more patches, continue with
3e Reboot the server to finish the update.
Rebooting the server activates the new kernel and ensures that OES services that need
restarting after patching are restarted.
You can also update your server with specific maintenance patches.
1 Log in to the server as
2 At the command line, enter the following commands:
2a To refresh all services, enter
162 OES 2 SP2: Installation Guide
/var/cache/zmd/
or su to
root
Step 3b and Step 3c until there are no more SLES 10 SP3 or OES 2 SP2 patches.
or to
root su root
where the update process downloads all the
.
root
Step 3e.
.