Initial setup
Procedure: Login and update the system
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SSH into your AWS instance.
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Switch to the root user and update the system.
sudo -i zypper refresh zypper update
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Configure storage with the suma-storage tool.
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For help see:
suma-storage --help
This tool simplifies creating the storage disk device and database device.
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Use
lsblk
to see the names of your disk devices. You will see a list of partitions that were created when we configured the AWS image.-
Root partition 100 GB
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Spacewalk storage 500 GB
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Database storage 80 GB
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Format the command in the following manner:
suma-storage <storage-disk-device> [<database-disk-device>] #For example: suma-storage /dev/nvme1n1 /dev/nvme2n1
This command will create the following storage locations:
/pgsql_storage /pgsql_storage/pgsql
/manager_storage /manager_storage/spacewalk
/var/spacewalk /var/cache/rhn /var/lib/spacewalk
Run setup
Execute yast2 susemanager_setup
as root.
For more information on a typical SUSE Manager installation, see Server Setup.