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4 SUSE Manager Web Interface 49 4.1 Navigation ........................................................................................ 49 4.2 Getting your Novell Customer Center Mirror Credentials ........................ 56 4.3 Overview .......................................................................................... 57 4.4 Systems ............................................................................................ 61 4.5 Patches ........................................................................................... 125 4.6 Channels ......................................................................................... 131 4.7 Configuration ................................................................................... 140 4.8 Schedule ......................................................................................... 148 4.9 Users — [Mgmt] .............................................................................. 150 4.10 Monitoring — [Mon] ...................................................................... 157 4.11 Admin ........................................................................................... 165 4.12 Help .............................................................................................. 167 5 Monitoring 171 5.1 Prerequisites .................................................................................... 171 5.2 SUSE Manager Monitoring Daemon (rhnmd) ...................................... 172 5.3 mysql package ................................................................................. 176 5.4 Notifications .................................................................................... 177 5.5 Probes ............................................................................................. 180 5.6 Troubleshooting ............................................................................... 183 6 Multiple Organizations 187 6.1 Recommended Models for Using Multiple Organizations ...................... 187 6.2 Admin > Organizations ..................................................................... 194 6.3 Managing Organizations .................................................................... 195 6.4 Managing Entitlements ..................................................................... 197 6.5 Configuring Systems in an Organization .............................................. 200 6.6 Organizational Trusts ........................................................................ 201
6.7 Admin > Users ................................................................................. 206 7 Virtualization 209 7.1 Autoinstalling VM Guests ................................................................. 209 7.2 Managing VM Guests ....................................................................... 219 7.3 Integrating SUSE Studio Onsite Appliances into SUSE Manager ............ 220 8 Cobbler 225 8.1 Cobbler Requirements ....................................................................... 225 8.2 Adding a Distribution to Cobbler ........................................................ 228 8.3 Adding a Profile to Cobbler ............................................................... 228 8.4 Adding a System to Cobbler .............................................................. 229 8.5 Cobbler Templates ............................................................................ 230 8.6 Using Koan ..................................................................................... 232 A Command Line Config Management Tools 235 A.1 Actions Control ............................................................................... 235 A.2 Configuration Client ........................................................................ 237 A.3 Configuration Manager .................................................................... 240 B Probes 251 B.1 Probe Guidelines ............................................................................. 252 B.2 Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x ..................................................................... 253 B.3 BEA WebLogic 6.x and higher .......................................................... 256 B.4 General ........................................................................................... 262 B.5 Linux ............................................................................................. 267 B.6 LogAgent ....................................................................................... 281 B.7 MySQL 3.23 - 3.33 .......................................................................... 285 B.8 Network Services ............................................................................. 288 B.9 Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g ................................................................ 299
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