SUSE Manager Proxy Registration
Uyuni Proxy systems are registered as Salt or traditional clients using a bootstrap script. Migrating a traditional proxy to a Salt proxy is not possible.
If you want to change a traditional proxy to a Salt proxy, you need to reinstall the proxy. For more information about reinstalling proxies, see installation:proxy-setup.adoc#replace-susemgrproxy.
This procedure describes software channel setup and registering the installed proxy as the Uyuni client, using an activation key.
When choosing a username or password for your Uyuni Proxy, ensure it does not contain an |
Before you can select the correct child channels while creating the activation key, ensure you have completely downloaded the Uyuni Proxy 2021.08 channel and all the recommended and mandatory SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 sp3 channels. |
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Create an activation key based on the
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-Pool
base channel. For more information about activation keys, see client-configuration:activation-keys.adoc.Figure 1. Proxy Activation Key -
From the
Child Channels
listing select the recommended channels by clicking theinclude recommended
icon:-
SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP3-Pool
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SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP3-Updates
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP3-Pool
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP3-Updates
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-Pool
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-Updates
The
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.2-Updates
channel is mandatory.Figure 2. Base and Child Proxy Channel
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Modify a bootstrap script for the proxy if needed. If you want to run the proxy on a traditional client (system type
Management
) uncheckBootstrap using Salt
. Using Salt is the default. For more information about bootstrap scripts, see client-configuration:registration-bootstrap.adoc.Figure 3. Modifying Bootstrap Script -
Bootstrap the client with the bootstrap script.
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For Salt clients, accept the key on the
page by checking the appropriate checkbox. When accepted, it will appear in the . -
Navigate to
, and check that the four proxy channels (Pool
andUpdates
forSLE-PRODUCT
andSLE-MODULE
) plus the recommended channels are selected.SLE-PRODUCT-Pool
must be the base channel and the others are child channels.Figure 4. Proxy Channels
Continue with setting up the registered Uyuni Proxy: proxy-setup.adoc.