SUSE Manager

Reference Guide

Publication Date 21 Feb 2011

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Contents

About This Guide
1. Available Documentation
2. Feedback
3. Documentation Conventions
1. Package Update Tools (SLE and RHEL)
1.1. Updating Packages on SLErfc
1.2. Updating Packages on RHEL 5
1.3. Red Hat Update Agent (RHEL 4)debranded
2. SUSE Manager Daemon
2.1. Configuring
2.2. Viewing Status
2.3. Disabling Service
2.4. Troubleshooting
3. SUSE Manager Web Interface
3.1. Navigation
3.2. Getting your Novell Customer Center Mirror Credentials
3.3. Overviewrfc
3.4. Systems
3.5. Patches
3.6. Channelsrfc
3.7. Configurationrfc
3.8. Schedule
3.9. Users — [Mgmt]
3.10. Monitoring — [Mon]
3.11. Admin
3.12. Help
4. Monitoring
4.1. Prerequisites
4.2. SUSE Manager Monitoring Daemon (rhnmd)
4.3. mysql package
4.4. Notifications
4.5. Probes
4.6. Troubleshooting
5. Multiple Organizations
5.1. Recommended Models for Using Multiple Organizations
5.2. Admin+Organizations
5.3. Creating an Organization
5.4. Managing Entitlements
5.5. Configuring Systems in an Organization
5.6. Organizational Trusts
5.7. Admin+Users
6. Cobbler
6.1. Cobbler Requirements
6.2. Adding a Distribution to Cobbler
6.3. Adding a Profile to Cobbler
6.4. Adding a System to Cobbler
6.5. Cobbler Templates
6.6. Using Koan
A. Command Line Config Management Tools
A.1. Actions Controldebranded
A.2. Configuration Clientdebranded
A.3. Configuration Managerrfc
B. SUSE Manager API Accesshidden
B.1. Using the auth Class and Getting the Session
B.2. Obtaining the system_id
B.3. Determining the sid
B.4. Viewing the cid
B.5. Getting the sgid
B.6. Channel Labels
B.7. Sample API Script
C. Probes
C.1. Probe Guidelines
C.2. Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x
C.3. BEA WebLogic 6.x and higher
C.4. General
C.5. Linux
C.6. LogAgent
C.7. MySQL 3.23 - 3.33
C.8. Network Services
C.9. Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g
C.10. SUSE Manager
D. About SUSE Manager and Spacewalk
Glossarydraft

List of Figures

1.1. YaST Software Repositories
1.2. YaST Online Update
1.3. YaST Online Update
1.4. Package Updater Interface
1.5. Package Dependency
1.6. Reboot Prompt
1.7. Package Updater Applet
1.8. Available Package Updates
1.9. Retrieval/Installation Settings
1.10. Package Exceptions Settings
3.1. Top Navigation Bar—SUSE Manager
3.2. Left Navigation Bar—Users
3.3. Subtabs—System Details
3.4. Overview
3.5. Activation Keys
3.6. Activation Key Details With Subtabs
3.7. Autoinstallation Overview
3.8. Profiles
3.9. Autoinstallation Details
3.10. System Details
3.11. Software
3.12. Activation Keys
3.13. Scripts
3.14. Autoinstallation File
3.15. Patch Search
3.16. All Channels
3.17. Package Search
3.18. Schedule - Pending Actions
3.19. User List
3.20. Documentation Search
5.1. Centralized SUSE Manager Management for Multi-Department Organization
5.2. Decentralized SUSE Manager Management for Multi-Department Organization
5.3. Admin
5.4. Create New Organization
5.5. Organizational Trusts
5.6. System History

List of Tables

1.1. Graphical Update Agent Options
1.2. Update Agent Command Line Arguments
3.1. Entitlement Markers
4.1. rhn-runprobe Options
A.1. mgr-actions-control options
A.2. mgrcfg-client get options
A.3. mgrcfg-client verify options
A.4. mgrcfg-manager add options
A.5. mgrcfg-manager diff options
A.6. mgrcfg-manager diff-revisions options
A.7. mgrcfg-manager download-channel options
A.8. mgrcfg-manager get options
A.9. mgrcfg-manager remove options
A.10. mgrcfg-manager update options
A.11. mgrcfg-manager upload-channel options
B.1. Channel Labels
C.1. Apache::Processes settings
C.2. Apache::Traffic settings
C.3. Apache::Uptime settings
C.4. BEA WebLogic::Execute Queue settings
C.5. BEA WebLogic::Heap Free settings
C.6. BEA WebLogic::JDBC Connection Pool settings
C.7. BEA WebLogic::Server State settings
C.8. BEA WebLogic::Servlet settings
C.9. General::Remote Program settings
C.10. General::Remote Program with Data settings
C.11. General::SNMP Check settings
C.12. General::TCP Check settings
C.13. General::UDP Check settings
C.14. General::Uptime (SNMP) settings
C.15. Linux::CPU Usage settings
C.16. Linux::Disk IO Throughput settings
C.17. Linux::Disk Usage settings
C.18. Linux::Inodes settings
C.19. Linux::Interface Traffic settings
C.20. Linux::Load settings
C.21. Linux::Memory Usage settings
C.22. Linux::Process Counts by State settings
C.23. Linux::Process Count Total settings
C.24. Linux::Process Health settings
C.25. Linux::Process Running settings
C.26. Linux::Swap Usage settings
C.27. Linux::TCP Connections by State settings
C.28. Linux::Users settings
C.29. Linux::Virtual Memory settings
C.30. LogAgent::Log Pattern Match settings
C.31. LogAgent::Log Size settings
C.32. MySQL::Database Accessibility settings
C.33. MySQL::Opened Tables settings
C.34. MySQL::Open Tables settings
C.35. MySQL::Query Rate settings
C.36. MySQL::Threads Running settings
C.37. Network Services::DNS Lookup settings
C.38. Network Services::FTP settings
C.39. Network Services::IMAP Mail settings
C.40. Network Services::Mail Transfer (SMTP) settings
C.41. Network Services::Ping settings
C.42. Network Services::POP Mail settings
C.43. Network Services::Remote Ping settings
C.44. Network Services::RPCService settings
C.45. Network Services::Secure Web Server (HTTPS) settings
C.46. Network Services::SSH settings
C.47. Network Services::Web Server (HTTP) settings
C.48. Oracle::Active Sessions settings
C.49. Oracle::Availability settings
C.50. Oracle::Blocking Sessions settings
C.51. Oracle::Buffer Cache settings
C.52. Oracle::Client Connectivity settings
C.53. Oracle::Data Dictionary Cache settings
C.54. Oracle::Disk Sort Ratio settings
C.55. Oracle::Idle Sessions settings
C.56. Oracle::Index Extents settings
C.57. Oracle::Library Cache settings
C.58. Oracle::Locks settings
C.59. Oracle::Redo Log settings
C.60. Oracle::Table Extents settings
C.61. Oracle::Tablespace Usage settings
C.62. Oracle::TNS Ping settings
C.63. SUSE Manager::Disk Space settings
C.64. SUSE Manager::Execution Time settings
C.65. SUSE Manager::Interface Traffic settings
C.66. SUSE Manager::Latency settings
C.67. SUSE Manager::Load settings
C.68. SUSE Manager::Probe Count settings
C.69. SUSE Manager::Process Counts settings
C.70. SUSE Manager::Processes settings
C.71. SUSE Manager::Process Health settings
C.72. SUSE Manager::Process Running settings
C.73. SUSE Manager::Swap settings
C.74. SUSE Manager::Users settings