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Subscription Management
Any machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 or SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop 11 can be configured to register against local Subscription Management Tool
server and download software updates from there instead of communicating directly
with the Novell Customer Center and the NU servers. To use an SMT server for client
registration and as a local update source, you must configure the SMT server in your
network first. The SMT server software is distributed as an add-on for SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server and its confuguration is desribed in the Subscription Management
Tool Guide. There is no need to install any add-on on the clients to be configured to
register against an SMT server.
To register a client against an SMT server, 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 your SMT
server is set up to use the default server certificate, the CA certificate will be available
on the SMT server via HTTP protocol 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.
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