Initial setup

Procedure: Login and update the system

  1. SSH into your AWS instance.

  2. Switch to the root user and update the system.

    sudo -i
zypper refresh
zypper update

  3. Configure storage with the suma-storage tool. For help see: suma-storage --help This tool simplifies creating the storage disk device and database device.

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

  • Spacewalk storage 500 GB

  • Database storage 80 GB

    1. 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.