User manual NOVELL LINUX ENTERPRISE 10 SP2 SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE

[. . . ] SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 September 23, 2008 www. novell. com Subscription Management Tool Guide Subscription Management Tool Guide List of Authors: Jakub Friedl All content is copyright © Novell, Inc. Legal Notice This manual is protected under Novell intellectual property rights. By reproducing, duplicating or distributing this manual you explicitly agree to conform to the terms and conditions of this license agreement. This manual may be freely reproduced, duplicated and distributed either as such or as part of a bundled package in electronic and/or printed format, provided however that the following conditions are fulfilled: That this copyright notice and the names of authors and contributors appear clearly and distinctively on all reproduced, duplicated and distributed copies. [. . . ] The list of e-mail addresses to send reports to can also be edited manually in the reportEmail option of the /etc/smt. conf configuration file. For more information about editing the list of addresses directly, see Section "[REPORT] Section of SMT Reports 25 /etc/smt. conf" (page 40). To set the frequency of reports manually, you can directly edit the /usr/lib/SMT/bin/smt-gen-report line(s) of the crontab in /etc/ cron. d/novell. com-smt. Reports, including those created as a scheduled SMT job, are created by the smt-report command. To edit parameters used with scheduled commands, edit the /etc/smt. d/smt-cron. conf configuration file. For more information, see Section 6. 2. 2, "/etc/smt. d/smt-cron. conf" (page 43). 5. 2 Types of SMT Reports Two types of reports can be created with the smt-report command: --local If the --local option is used, the created report is based only on local SMT data. --ncc If the --ncc option is used, the created report is based on Novell Customer Center data. If neither --local nor --ncc is used, the type of report is determined by the forwardRegistration in the /etc/smt. conf configuration file. If the option is set to true, the report is based on Novell Customer Center data. If you are creating a report based on local SMT data and you do not want local data to be synchronized with the Novell Customer Center at all, use the --nonccsync option together with --local option. 5. 3 Report Output Formats and Targets SMT reports can be printed to the standard output, exported to one or multiple files (in CVS format) as well as mailed to the defined list of e-mail addresses. Use the following options for the smt-report command: 26 Subscription Management Tool Guide --quiet or -q Suppress output to STDOUT and run smt-report in quiet mode. By default, the report will be written to a single file rendered as tables. Optionally, the filename or whole path may be specified after the parameter: --file filename. If no filename is specified, a default filename containing a timestamp is used. In CSV (Comma-Separated Value) mode the report will be written to multiple files, therefore the specified filename will expand to [path/ ]filename-reportname. extension for every report. --csv or -c The report will be exported to multiple files in CSV format. The first line of each *. csv file consists of the column names, the data starts on line two. The --csv parameter should only be used together with the --file parameter. If the specified filename contains . csv as extension, the report format will be CSV (as if the --csv parameter was used). --mail or -m Activate mailing of the report to the addresses configured with the YaST SMT Configuration module and written in /etc/smt. conf. NOTE: Disabling Sending Attachments If you want to disable sending CSV attachments with report mails, edit the /etc/smt. d/smt-cron. conf configuration file as follows: remove the --attach option from the REPORT_PARAMS value. The default line reads: REPORT_PARAMS="--mail --attach -L /var/log/smt-report. log". [. . . ] Example: regcert=/data/inst/smt/smt-ca. cert 50 Subscription Management Tool Guide Interactive Use ask to open a pop-up menu during installation where you can specify the path to the certificate. Example: regcert=ask Deactivate Certificate Installation Use done if either the certificate will be installed by an add-on product, or if you are using a certificate issued by an official certificate authority. Example: regcert=done WARNING: Beware of Typing Errors Make sure the values you enter are correct. If regurl has not been specified correctly, the registration of the update source will fail. [. . . ]