2.1 Prerequisites for Creating Subscriptions

  • You must first create the credentials before you can use them to create subscriptions. Credentials are used to authenticate to the repositories.

    For more information on how to create credentials, see Using the Credential Vault.

  • You need to ensure that you have the Device rights to select the subscription server. For more information on Device rights, see Device Rights in the ZENworks Administrator Accounts and Rights Reference.

    If you do not have the Device rights, by default, the current server will be selected. However, after the subscription is created, when you try to view the subscription details, the server name is not displayed and an exception is displayed in the logs.

The following table describes how to obtain the username, password, and other prerequisites for each subscription:

Subscription Types

Prerequisites

Novell Subscription, RCE Subscription

You can obtain the username and password to use as credentials either by directly contacting Novell Customer Center or by obtaining the values of the deviceid and secret files from a device that is already registered to Novell Customer Center.

For more information on how to register with Novell Customer Center, see the Novell Customer Center documentation.

On SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and OES2 devices, you can obtain the values of the deviceid and secret files from the /etc/zmd/deviceid and the /etc/zmd/secret locations in order to authenticate to the NU or RCE repositories.

On SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 devices, you can obtain the username and the password values from the /etc/zypp/credentials.d/NCCcredentials file.

ZLM Subscription

You must obtain the IP address or the DNS name of the ZENworks Linux Management Server from which you want to replicate content. You must also obtain the deviceid and secret values of a device that is registered to the ZENworks Linux Management Server. By using these as credentials, you can replicate only the content that the device is entitled to.

On SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 devices or SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 devices, you can obtain the value of deviceid and secret from the /etc/zmd/deviceid and /etc/zmd/secret files respectively, or from the/etc/opt/novell/zenworks/zmd/deviceid and/etc/opt/novell/zenworks/zmd/secret files on any other registered devices.

ZENworks Subscription

You must obtain the IP address or the DNS name of one of the Primary Servers in the ZENworks zone from which you want to replicate content. The Primary Server must be configured as a Sharing Server in the remote ZENworks zone. You must also obtain a subscription registration key from the remote ZENworks zone. You can contact the remote ZENworks zone administrator to obtain the Primary Server address and the subscriber registration key.

YUM (RPM-MD)

Obtain the URL of an available YUM (RPM-MD) repository. If the repository is authenticated, you must obtain the username and password to access the repository URL.

RHN Subscription

  1. From an RHEL device, obtain the systemid file that is located in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/.

  2. Use the systemid file as a credential to authenticate to the RHN repository.

SUSE Subscription

You can obtain the username and password (to use as credentials) from the following location in the SUSE Customer Center: Organization > Organization Credentials. You can use only Organization Credentials. Individual device credentials will not work.

Apple VPP Subscription

An MDM role must be assigned to one or more Primary Servers.

Android Enterprise Subscription

A Google ID, preferably a corporate ID, for example: yourid@gmail.com

Novell Customer Center credentials