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SUSE Manager Overview SUSE Manager is an server solution for managing a network of SUSE Linux Enterprise or Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. All security alerts, bug fix alerts, and enhancement alerts (collectively known as patch alerts) can be downloaded directly from SUSE, or Novell, or your own custom collection. You can even schedule updates for delivery to your system immediately after release. The main components of SUSE Manager are: • the update agent (rhn_check), • the SUSE Manager website, whether this is hosted by a SUSE Manager or fed through an proxy server, • SUSE Manager daemon, SUSE Manager daemon enables channel subscription, package installs, and management of system profiles. See Section 2.3, “Red Hat Update Agent (RHEL 4)” (page 26) for further information. The SUSE Manager daemon (rhnsd) runs in the background as a service and probes SUSE Manager for notifications and updates at set time intervals (see Chapter 3, SUSE Manager Daemon (page 47) for further information). This daemon is necessary in order to schedule updates or other actions through the website. Find out more about SUSE Manager at http://www.novell.com/products/ suse-manager/technical-information/. 1 SUSE Manager Overview 1
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Page 26 and 27: Utilities To verify whether all dep
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4.1.2 Categories and Pages This sec
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• Configuration — Keep track of
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4.1.4 Quick Search In addition to t
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4.3 Overview After logging into the
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If you change your SUSE Manager pas
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4.3.5 Organization Trusts The Organ
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• Packages — Total number of pa
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4.4.2.6 Inactive The Inactive page
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If you mistakenly delete a system p
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It is also possible to lock multipl
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System Details > Details > Properti
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2b Create an empty run file in that
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System Details > Software > Patches
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the system, select the checkboxes o
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If you wish to deploy any of these
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System Details > Provisioning > Aut
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System Details > Provisioning > Sna
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• Revert Provisioning-entitled sy
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4.4.4.6 System Set Manager > Groups
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ently subscribed. Clicking Replace
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System Set Manager > Misc > Custom
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• Asset Tag — A unique identifi
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• Device ID — The hexadecimal n
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WARNING: Changing the Default Activ
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Without this stacking ability, your
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4.4.9 Autoinstallation — [Prov] N
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ootloader program is SYSLINUX, this
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Integrating AutoYaST with PXE In ad
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Kickstart Prerequisites Some prepar
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the domain name of the SUSE Manager
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Once created, you can access the Ki
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Available Trees Use the drop-down m
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System Details > Partitioning — [
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1 Click the add new kickstart scrip
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ported into SUSE Manager and associ
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Using variables are just one part o
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4.5.2 All Patches The All Patches p
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OVAL is an open vulnerability and a
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• Security Advisory — Patches f
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4.6.1.4 SUSE Channels The SUSE Chan
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cies, change log, list of files in
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summary:java and description:java O
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To compare packages in the current
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4.7.2 Overview In the Configuration
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Add Files The Add Files subtab has
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NOTE By default, the maximum file s
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clude the supported macros of your
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action is a scheduled task to be pe
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Once all fields are completed, clic
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For instructions to deactivate your
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User List > Active > User Details >
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4.10.3.1 Notification > Filters Not
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1 From the Monitoring > Probe Suite
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Finally, as with single probes, you
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Checkboxes offer options for includ
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The Client Configuration Guide is a
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Monitoring The monitoring entitleme
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• Linux::Disk IO Throughput • L
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if you already have sshd running. T
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5.4 Notifications In addition to vi
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ACK METOO system 1h boss@domain.com
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2 Navigate to the System Details >
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5.6 Troubleshooting Though all moni
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6.2 Admin > Organizations The Organ
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Click the name of one of the organi
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6.6.3 Migrating Systems from One Tr
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A line in the CSV file should conta
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Virtualization SUSE Manager allows
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oot/arch/loader/linux • The Base
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created in the previous step) to e.
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“Activation Keys” (page 210) fo
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7.2 Managing VM Guests Basic VM Gue
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7.3.1 Requirements In order to inte
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Onsite, select your appliance, and
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Cobbler SUSE Manager features the C
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Create a class called PXE. A system
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for a web server and a desktop conf
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• Robust features that allow admi
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8.6.1 Using Koan to Provision Virtu
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Command Line Config Management Tool
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Option --report -f, --force -h, --h
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The following table lists the optio
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.conf file on the server running th
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mgrcfg-manager diff --channel=chann
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Table A.7: mgrcfg-manager download-
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A.3.10 Deleting a Config Channel To
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Option -cCHANNEL, --channel=CHANNEL
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B.1 Probe Guidelines The following
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Field Pathname* UserAgent* Username
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B.2.3 Apache::Uptime The Apache::Up
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Field BEA Domain Admin Server BEA S
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Field BEA Domain Admin Server BEA S
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Field BEA Server Name* Servlet Name
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Requirements — The SUSE Manager m
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Field Timeout* Critical Maximum Lat
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• CPU Percent Used — The five-s
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Table B.17: Linux::Disk Usage setti
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Field Critical Minimum Input Rate C
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• Sleeping — A process that is
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Specify the process by its command
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Field Critical Minimum Number Runni
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Field Warning Maximum CLOSE_WAIT Co
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Table B.38: Network Services::FTP s
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B.8.7 Network Services::Remote Ping
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Field Warning Maximum Remote Servic
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The values for CRITICAL and WARNING
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Field Oracle SID* Oracle Username*
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B.9.10 Oracle::Library Cache The Or
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The metrics returned and the thresh
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• Space Available — The size of
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Field Warning Maximum Probe Latency
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Field Warning Maximum Threads Criti
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Minimalist AutoYaST Profile for Aut
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About SUSE Manager and Spacewalk SU
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Description Non-interactive program
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Glossary Action A task that is sche
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nization's users, for example, to g
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Service Level A SUSE subscription s
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Zypper A command line tool on SUSE
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