SUSE Lifecycle Management Server 1.3

Installation Instructions

Adding SLMS During Base Product Installation

• Select the “Include Add-On Products from Separate Media” box on the Installation Mode screen.
• Depending on your installation, you can add SLMS from CD1 or from a remote installation SLMS source, such as an FTP server, on the next screen.

Adding SLMS Post-SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Installation

• Under YaST2, Select “Software” - “Add-On Product”, add CD1 of SLMS or a remote installation SLMS source.
• Follow the installation workflow steps presented.

Deploying SLMS as an Appliance

Apart from installing SLMS as an add-on, it is also possible to deploy it as an appliance. The main advantage is that you can skip the installation procedure and start with the SLMS configuration after booting the appliance. This deployment is mainly intended for virtualization purposes, which helps you run more virtual machines on one physical hardware. There are several virtualization solutions, such as Xen, KVM, VMware, or VirtualBox. For more information, see the related Web pages.

The SLMS appliance is shipped as an ISO 9660 image suitable for booting from (virtual) CD drive. To run the appliance, you need to connect this image in the virtual CD drive and set up and connect at least one hard drive in your virtual machine. All data on that drive will be destroyed and used by SLMS.

To run SLMS as an appliance, follow these steps:

1. Create and configure a new virtual machine.

2. Create at least one virtual hard drive and connect it to the virtual machine.

3. Connect the SLMS appliance ISO image to the machine's virtual CD drive.

4. Start the virtual machine. It must boot from the CD drive containing the SLMS appliance ISO image. If not, check the boot order in the virtual machine's BIOS setup.

5. Select Install/Restore SLE-11-SP1-SLMS-1.2 from the boot menu and press Enter.

6. Select Yes to destroy all the data on the connected hard drive (like /dev/sda). Installation of the appliance on the hard drive will start. After the appliance is installed, it will boot and start the required WebYaST services.

Initial configuration

When SLMS is installed as add-on or deployed as an appliance, it needs to be confitured. In case of add-on installation, make sure that the webyast service is running. On boot, the webyast service prints a line with WebYaST is running at https://appliance_ip_address:4984/

Point your Web browser to the printed address. A WebYaST login screen appears. Now you are ready to configure your SLMS server.

Configuring SLMS to Use SUSE Studio Onsite

By default, SLMS is configured to use SUSE Studio Online version. To use it with SUSE Studio Onsite, make sure to set up the SUSE Studio host in the WebYaST configuration module and, unless your SUSE Studio Onsite has proper SSL certificate, select HTTP as the transport protocol.

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