Registering RHEL 7 or CentOS Linux 7 with SMT

Install the SMT pattern on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:

# zypper in -t pattern smt

Start the smt-wizard module in YaST:

# yast2 smt-wizard

Activate the Open Port in Firewall check box.

Enter your Organization (Mirroring) Credentials.

To find your organization credentials, log in to the SUSE Customer Center, select your organization from My Organizations, and click Proxies. Your organization's Mirroring credentials are in the top right corner.

Select Test to validate the credentials. SMT connects to the SUSE Customer Center using the provided credentials and downloads testing data.

Enter the SCC E-mail Used for Registration.

Verify that the correct URL appears in Your SMT Server URL, then select Next.

For security reasons, SMT requires a separate user to connect to the database. Set a password for this user in the Database Password for smt User field, then confirm the new password in the next field.

Select Add to enter any e-mail addresses that should receive SMT reports. When all e-mail addresses are entered, select Next.

If a password for the MariaDB root user is already set, enter the password when prompted, then select OK.

If no password is set for the MariaDB root user, enter and confirm a new password when prompted, then select OK.

By default, SMT communicates with clients via a secure protocol. If the SSL certificate does not exist, the wizard displays a warning. Select Run CA Management to create the certificate.

If prompted, enter and confirm a password for the CA private key, then select OK.

Review the Installation Overview, then select Next.

On the SMT server, update the available product and repository metadata:

# smt-sync

Enable SUSE Liberty Linux with the following command:

# smt-repos --enable-mirror RES-7-Updates
1 repository enabled.

If your subscription includes the High Availability extension, enable the extension with the following command:

# smt-repos --enable-mirror RES-7-HA-Updates
1 repository enabled.

To check whether the extension is available, run the following command: smt-repos RES-7-HA-Updates

Start package mirroring for the enabled repositories, and log the output in case you need to troubleshoot errors:

# smt-mirror --debug --logfile /var/log/smt/smt-mirror.log

Packages will now be mirrored to the SMT server once per day.

To enable GPG checking, install the res-signingkeys package on the SMT server:

# zypper in res-signingkeys

The key is now available on the SMT server and can be imported to clients. You can check for the key in /srv/www/htdocs/repo/keys/ on the server, or at http://SMT_SERVER_URL/repo/keys/ in a browser.

Import the repository signing key from the SMT server:

# rpm --import -vv http://SMT_SERVER_URL/repo/keys/res-signingkeys.key

Create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/RES7.repo and add the following content:

[liberty7]
name=SUSE Liberty Linux 7
baseurl=http://SMT_SERVER_URL/repo/SUSE/Updates/RES/7/x86_64/update
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

To enable the High Availability repository, create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/RES7-HA.repo and add the following content:

[liberty7-ha]
name=SUSE Liberty Linux 7 HA extension
baseurl=http://SMT_SERVER_URL/repo/SUSE/Updates/RES-HA/7/x86_64/update
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

Install the suseRegisterRES package:

# yum install suseRegisterRES

Copy the SMT certificate to the system:

# wget http://SMT_SERVER_URL/smt.crt
# cat smt.crt >> /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem

Edit /etc/suseRegister.conf to point to SMT by changing the url value:

url = https://SMT_SERVER_URL/center/regsvc/

Register the system:

# suse_register

Disable the RHEL or CentOS repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d by setting enabled=0 in each .repo file.

Run the update command to make sure there are no errors:

# yum update