Release Notes for Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise

<H1>Release Notes for Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise</H1>

<P>
These release notes cover the following areas:
<ul>
<li>General: Information that everybody should read.</li>
<li>Installation: Additional pertinent information for the Installation.</li>
<li>Providing Feedback</li>
</ul>
</P>

<H2>General</H2>

<p>The Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise used for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).</p>

<p>Some highlights are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mirroring solution for delivering maintenance updates from Novell Customer Center</li>
<li>Registration proxy with support for SUSE Linux Enterprise products</li>
</ul>

<p>If you add the SMT during installation, online update sources for the
SMT are added when you register your product.</p>

<p>If you have added the SMT later, please run the Novell Customer Center
Configuration in YaST2. This will add the SMT update sources to your
configuration. You will not have to re-enter your registration
data for this.</p>

<H2>Installation</H2>

<P>The Subscription Management Tool for SUSE Linux Enterprise (SMT) is an add-on product. It can be added during installation, so the additional
packages that come with SMT can be selected and installed right from the beginning,
or later.<P>

<p>If you install the SMT on top of a SLES that has the latest maintenance patches applied, you may get dependency errors in some cases if you don't also use the latest SMT patches.</p>

<p>To avoid this, please make sure that you re-run the Novell Customer Center (NCC) Configuration in YaST2 right <em>after</em> you have added the SDK installation source to your system, but <em>before</em> you install any packages from the SMT. This will add the SMT update channel to your setup.</p>

<p>YaST will then automatically use newer packages from the update channel if available. Your system needs to be connected to the Internet for both running the NCC Configuration and receiving actual maintenance updates.</p>


<H2>Known Issues</H2>
<P>
This is a list of issues known in this release.
</P>
<H3>Missing documentation</H3>
<P>
The "Subscription Management Tool Guide" is older than the software in this release.
</P>
<H3>Make Sure to Mirror All Needed Catalogs</H3>
<P>
Make sure all needed catalogs are mirrored on the SMT server. Clients
registered against the SMT server will be given only the catalogs that are
enabled to be mirrored from Novell Customer Center. To enable mirroring of
all catalogs required for a given product, use the 'smt catalogs' command
with the '-p' option: 'smt catalogs -p &lt;productname&gt;'.
</P>
<H3>smt-mirror-sles9 May Hang During Initial Synchronization</H3>
<P>
If the SMT server hangs during mirroring of SLE9 YOU sources, we
recommend to install the wget maintenance update (#5348).
</P>
<H3>Provisional Subscriptions are Shown in SMT Only</H3>
<P>
SMT displays all subscriptions, including provisional subscriptions,
in the same way. However, NCC never displays provisional
subscriptions. For this reason, if you are using provisional
subscriptions, the NCC and SMT reports will be different during the
two weeks the provisional codes are active.
</P>
<P>
Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
</P>
<H2>Providing feedback to our products</H2>
<P>
Please read the READMEs on the CD.
</P>
<P>
In case of encountering a bug please report it
through your support contact.
</P>
<P>
Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
</P>
<P><TT>Mon May  4 14:19:31 UTC 2020</TT></P>