In secured environments where the appliance must run without direct Internet access, you can configure the appliance with the Subscription Management Tool (SMT), which enables you to upgrade the appliance to the latest versions of Sentinel as they are released. SMT is a package proxy system that is integrated with Novell Customer Center and provides key Novell Customer Center capabilities.
Get the Novell Customer Center credentials for Sentinel to get updates from Novell. For information on getting the credentials, contact Novell Support.
Ensure that SLES 11 SP1 is installed with the following packages on the machine where you want to install SMT:
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smt
perl-DBIx-Transaction
perl-File-Basename-Object
pertl-DBIx-Migration-Director
perl-MIME-Lite
perl-Text-ASCIITable
smt-support
yast2-smt
yum-metadata-parser
createrepo
sle-smt-release-cd
sle-smt_en
perl-DBI
apache2-prefork
libapr1
perl-Data-ShowTable
perl-Net-Daemon
perl-Tie-IxHash
fltk
libapr-util1
perl-PIRPC
apache2-mod_perl
apache2-utils
apache2
perl-DBD-mysql
Install SMT and configure the SMT server. For more information, refer to the following sections in the SMT documentation:
SMT Installation
SMT Server Configuration
Mirroring Installation and Update Repositories with SMT
Install the wget utility on the appliance machine.
For information on configuring the appliance with SMT, see “Configuring Clients to Use SMT” in the Subscription Management Tool documentation.