SUSE Manager Proxy Registration
Uyuni Proxy systems are registered as Salt or traditional clients using a bootstrap script. Migrating a traditionally registered Proxy system to a Salt Proxy system is not possible. Re-install the Proxy if you want to switch to Salt.
This procedure describes software channel setup and registering the installed Uyuni Proxy with an activation key as a Uyuni client.
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 4.1 channel and all the recommended and mandatory SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 channels. |
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Create an activation key based on the
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.1-Pool
base channel. For more information about activation keys, see Activation Keys.Figure 1. Proxy Activation Key -
From the
Child Channels
listing select the recommended channels by clicking theinclude recommended
icon:-
SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP2-Pool
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SLE-Module-Basesystem15-SP2-Updates
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP2-Pool
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SLE-Module-Server-Applications15-SP2-Updates
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.1-Pool
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SLE-Module-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.1-Updates
The
SLE-Product-SUSE-Manager-Proxy-4.1-Updates
channel is mandatory.Figure 2. Base and Child Proxy Channel
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Create the SUSE Manager Tools Repository for bootstrapping, see Bootstrap Repository.
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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 Register Clients with a Bootstrap Script.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: SUSE Manager Proxy Setup.