2.1 Understanding the Subscription Types

The following types of subscriptions are available in Linux Package Management:

Novell Subscription: Allows you to select subscriptions that you are entitled to download from Novell Customer Center based on your credentials. By using this subscription, you can replicate updates for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 or later distributions, all SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 distributions, and OES2 distributions. You can create bundles in your Management Zone with the replicated content.

RCE Subscription: Allows you to select subscriptions that you are entitled to download from Novell Customer Center based on your credentials. By using this subscription, you can replicate updates for SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. You can also create bundles in your Management Zone with the replicated content.

RHN Subscription: Allows you to replicate content from the Red Hat network for Red Hat Enterprise Linux distributions.

RPM-MD Subscription: Allows you to replicate subscriptions and packages from both authenticated and unauthenticated RPM-MD (YUM) repositories.

Static Subscription: Allows you to replicate content from the file system located on your local server and create bundles. You must have a static replication source available in the file system. You can create the static replication source by using the static replication option from any other subscription type.

ZENworks Subscription: Allows you to subscribe to a remote ZENworks zone by registering using a subscriber registration key shared by the remote zone. Once registered, you can replicate bundles and policies shared by the remote zone to your zone.

ZLM Subscription: Allows you to select subscriptions that you are entitled to download from the ZENworks Linux Management server based on your credentials. You can use these subscriptions to create bundles in your Management Zone.