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Best Practices
  1. 1 Introduction
  2. 2 Managing Your Subscriptions
  3. 3 Expanded Support
  4. 4 Salt Formulas and SUSE Manager
  5. 5 Configuration Management with Salt
  6. 6 Salt Minion Scalability
  7. 7 Activation Key Management
  8. 8 Contact Methods
  9. 9 Advanced Patch Lifecycle Management
  10. 10 Live Patching with SUSE Manager
  11. 11 SUSE Manager Server Migration
  12. 12 Client Migration
  13. 13 PostgreSQL Database Migration
  14. 14 Backup and Restore
  15. 15 Authentication Methods
  16. 16 Using a Custom SSL Certificate
  17. 17 Troubleshooting
  18. 18 Additional Resources
  19. 19 A SUSE Manager 2.1 and 3.2 Product Comparison
  20. A GNU Licenses
  21. 20 GNU Free Documentation License
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Publication Date: 2019-09-03
1 Introduction
1.1 What’s Covered in this Guide?
1.2 Prerequisites
1.3 Network Requirements
1.4 Hardware Recommendations
2 Managing Your Subscriptions
2.1 SUSE Customer Center (SCC)
2.2 Disconnected Setup with RMT or SMT (DMZ)
3 Expanded Support
3.1 Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Clients
3.2 Preparing Channels and Repositories for CentOS Traditional Clients
3.3 Registering CentOS Salt Minions with SUSE Manager
3.4 Managing Ubuntu Clients
3.5 Prepare to Register Ubuntu Clients
4 Salt Formulas and SUSE Manager
4.1 What are Salt Formulas?
4.2 Installing Salt Formulas via RPM
4.3 File Structure Overview
4.4 Editing Pillar Data in SUSE Manager
4.5 Writing Salt Formulas
4.6 Separating Data
4.7 SUSE Manager Generated Pillar Data
4.8 Formula Requirements
4.9 Using Salt Formulas with SUSE Manager
4.10 SUSE Manager for Retail Salt Formulas
4.11 Salt Formulas Coming with SUSE Manager
5 Configuration Management with Salt
5.1 Configuration Management Overview
5.2 State Data: Levels of Hierarchy
5.3 Salt States Storage Locations
5.4 SUSE Manager States
5.5 Pillar Data
5.6 Group States
6 Salt Minion Scalability
6.1 Salt Minion Onboarding Rate
6.2 Minions Running with Unaccepted Salt Keys
6.3 Salt Timeouts
6.4 Batching
7 Activation Key Management
7.1 What are Activation Keys?
7.2 Provisioning and Configuration
7.3 Activation Keys Best Practices
7.4 Combining Activation Keys
7.5 Using Activation Keys and Bootstrap with Traditional Clients (Non-Salt)
7.6 Using Activation Keys when Registering Salt Minions
8 Contact Methods
8.1 Selecting a Contact Method
8.2 Traditional Contact Method (rhnsd)
8.3 Push via SSH
8.4 Push via Salt SSH
8.5 OSAD
9 Advanced Patch Lifecycle Management
10 Live Patching with SUSE Manager
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Initial Setup Requirements
10.3 Live Patching Setup
10.4 Cloning Channels
10.5 Removing Non-live Kernel Patches from the Cloned Channels
10.6 Promoting Channels
10.7 Applying Live Patches to a Kernel
11 SUSE Manager Server Migration
11.1 Service Pack Migration Introduction
11.2 Service Pack Migration
11.3 Upgrading PostgreSQL to Version 9.6
11.4 Updating SUSE Manager
11.5 Migrating SUSE Manager version 3.1 to 3.2
11.6 SUSE Manager Migration from Version 2.1 to Version 3
12 Client Migration
12.1 Upgrading SLE 12 SPx to version 15
12.2 Migrating SLE 12 or later to version 12 SP4
13 PostgreSQL Database Migration
13.1 New SUSE Manager Installations
13.2 Migrating an Existing Installation
13.3 Performing a Fast Migration
13.4 Typical Migration Sample Session
14 Backup and Restore
14.1 Backing up SUSE Manager
14.2 Administering the Database with smdba
14.3 Database Backup with smdba
14.4 Restoring from Backup
14.5 Archive Log Settings
14.6 Retrieving an Overview of Occupied Database Space
14.7 Moving the Database
14.8 Recovering from a Crashed Root Partition
14.9 Database Connection Information
15 Authentication Methods
15.1 Authentication Via PAM
15.2 Authentication Via eDirectory and PAM
15.3 Example Quest VAS Active Directory Authentication Template
16 Using a Custom SSL Certificate
16.1 Prerequisites
16.2 Setup
16.3 Using a Custom Certificate with SUSE Manager Proxy
17 Troubleshooting
17.1 Registering Cloned Salt Minions
17.2 Registering Cloned Traditional Systems
17.3 Typical OSAD/jabberd Challenges
17.4 Gathering Information with spacewalk-report
17.5 RPC Connection Timeout Settings
17.6 Client/Server Package Inconsistency
17.7 Corrupted Repository Data
17.8 Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate
18 Additional Resources
18.1 Learning YAML Syntax for Salt States
18.2 Getting Started with Jinja Templates
18.3 Salt Best Practices
19 A SUSE Manager 2.1 and 3.2 Product Comparison
A GNU Licenses
20 GNU Free Documentation License
List of Figures
4.1 edit-group Example in the Web UI
4.2 pxe formula
4.3 branch network formula
4.4 saltboot formula
4.5 saltboot formula partitions
4.6 Bind Formula
4.7 bind-02-zones
4.8 bind-03-records
4.9 bind-03-records2
4.10 bind-04-reverse
4.11 dhcpd formula
4.12 tftpd formula
4.13 vsftpd formula
7.1 Provisioning and Configuration Overview
7.2 Combining Activation Keys
7.3 Combining Activation Keys 2
8.1 rhnsd Contact Method
8.2 Push via SSH Contact Method
8.3 Push via Salt SSH Contact Method
List of Tables
1.1 Required Server Ports
17.1 spacewalk-report Reports
19.1 Comparing Traditional Management and Salt Management
19.2 Comparing SUSE Manager 2.1 and 3.2 Functionality
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