User manual NOVELL LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE

[. . . ] SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 September 23, 2008 www. novell. com Subscription Management Tool Guide Subscription Management Tool Guide List of Authors: Jakub Friedl All content is copyright © Novell, Inc. Legal Notice This manual is protected under Novell intellectual property rights. By reproducing, duplicating or distributing this manual you explicitly agree to conform to the terms and conditions of this license agreement. This manual may be freely reproduced, duplicated and distributed either as such or as part of a bundled package in electronic and/or printed format, provided however that the following conditions are fulfilled: That this copyright notice and the names of authors and contributors appear clearly and distinctively on all reproduced, duplicated and distributed copies. [. . . ] If you are creating a report based on local SMT data and you do not want local data to be synchronized with the Novell Customer Center at all, use the --nonccsync option together with --local option. 5. 3 Report Output Formats and Targets SMT reports can be printed to the standard output, exported to one or multiple files (in CVS format) as well as mailed to the defined list of e-mail addresses. Use the following options for the smt-report command: 26 Subscription Management Tool Guide --quiet or -q Suppress output to STDOUT and run smt-report in quiet mode. --file or -F Export report to one or several files. By default, the report will be written to a single file rendered as tables. Optionally, the filename or whole path may be specified after the parameter: --file filename. If no filename is specified, a default filename containing a timestamp is used. However, SMT will not check if the file or files already exist. In CSV (Comma-Separated Value) mode the report will be written to multiple files, therefore the specified filename will expand to [path/ ]filename-reportname. extension for every report. --csv or -c The report will be exported to multiple files in CSV format. The first line of each *. csv file consists of the column names, the data starts on line two. The --csv parameter should only be used together with the --file parameter. If the specified filename contains . csv as extension, the report format will be CSV (as if the --csv parameter was used). --mail or -m Activate mailing of the report to the addresses configured with the YaST SMT Configuration module and written in /etc/smt. conf. --attach or -a Attach the report to the mails in CSV format. This option should only be used together with the --mail option. NOTE: Disabling Sending Attachments If you want to disable sending CSV attachments with report mails, edit the /etc/smt. d/smt-cron. conf configuration file as follows: remove the --attach option from the REPORT_PARAMS value. The default line reads: REPORT_PARAMS="--mail --attach -L /var/log/smt-report. log". To disable CSV attachments, change it to: REPORT_PARAMS="--mail -L /var/log/smt-report. log". SMT Reports 27 If you have disabled CSV attachments but need them occasionally, you can send them manually with the smt-report --mail --attach -L /var/log/smt-report. log command. 28 Subscription Management Tool Guide SMT Tools and Configuration Files This chapter describes the most important scripts and configuration files shipped with SMT. 6 6. 1 Important Scripts and Tools There are two important groups of SMT commands: The smt command with its subcommands is used for managing mirroring of updates, registration of clients, and reporting. The rcsmt script is used for starting, stopping, restarting SMT services, and for checking their status. 6. 1. 1 /usr/sbin/smt Commands The main command to manage the SMT is smt (/usr/sbin/smt). The smt command should be used together with various subcommands described in this section. If the smt command is used alone, it prints out a list of all available subcommands. To get help for individual subcommands, use smt subcommand --help. [. . . ] 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 general information about creating AutoYaST profiles and preparing automatic installation, refer to Installation and Administration. In this section, only SMT specific configuration is described. Configuring Clients to Use SMT 51 To configure SMT specific data using AutoYaST, follow these steps: 1 As root, start YaST and select Miscellaneous > Autoinstallation to start the graphical AutoYaST front-end. [. . . ]