During this course you will learn the following:
- Understand the system management challenges, and need for a comprehensive systems management solution.
- Understand the benefits of SUSE Manager 4.x.
- Learn about the new product features introduced in SUSE Manager 4.2.
- Understand the three different tiers of a fully deployed SUSE Manager system and learn the major software components of SUSE Manager and how relate to one another.
- Learn the hardware and software requirements for installing the various tiers of the SUSE Manager system.
- Understand how to perform an on-line installation of SUSE Manager Server.
- Understand the purpose of the two stages (Initial Setup and SUMA Administrative Setup) of the SUMA Setup procedure.
- Learn how to perform the Initial Setup whether your SUMA Server was installed in “text only” or “graphical mode”.
- Perform the SUMA Administrative Setup using the SUMA Web UI.
- Understand the importance of the SUSE Customer Center (SCC) in providing patch and update content for your SUMA Server.
- Learn how to sync SCC provided content down to your SUMA Server using the Web UI’s Setup Wizard and be able to monitor the progress of the synchronization process.
- Understand the pre-installation issues and hardware and software requirements for a SUMA 4.2 Proxy Server.
- Install a SUMA 4.2 Proxy Server and register the Proxy as a Salt Minion.
- Understand how to configure a SUMA 4.2 Proxy Server to make it function as a Proxy Server for downstream client servers.
- Understand the purpose of the Client Registration Process and what occurs during Registration.
- Planning you need to do prior to registering target client systems, in particular how to make SCC channel content available once systems have been registered.
- Learn how to manually create Bootstrap Repositories required for Client Registration.
- Create and configuring System Groups and Activation Keys and best practices for doing so.
- Learn the different methods that can be used to Register target client servers.
- Perform Client Registration using multiple methods.
- Understand what a Salt Key is and the methods to accept pending Salt Keys at your SUMA Server.
- Understand how to create and implement a Content Lifecycle Management strategy to manage patches and updates for registered client systems.
