Registering Oracle Linux Clients
This section contains information about registering traditional and Salt clients running Oracle Linux operating systems.
Oracle Linux repository URLs are available from SUSE Customer Center, but the packages and metadata are provided by Oracle, not by SUSE. Oracle Linux base media repositories are freely available for download from https://yum.oracle.com/. |
Traditional clients are not available on Oracle Linux 8. Oracle Linux 8 clients are only supported as Salt clients. |
Add Software Channels
Before you register Oracle Linux clients to your SUSE Manager Server, check that you have the Oracle Linux product enabled, and the required channels are fully synchronized.
The products you need for this procedure are:
OS Version | Product Name |
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Oracle Linux 6 |
Oracle Linux 6 x86_64 |
Oracle Linux 7 |
Oracle Linux 7 x86_64 |
Oracle Linux 8 |
Oracle Linux 8 x86_64 |
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In the SUSE Manager Web UI, navigate to
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Locate the appropriate products for your client operating system and architecture using the search bar, and check the appropriate product. This automatically checks all required channels. Click the arrow to see the complete list of related products, and ensure that any extra products you require are checked.
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Click Add Products and wait until the products have finished synchronizing.
For Oracle Linux 8 clients, add both the Base and AppStream channels. You require packages from both channels. If you do not add both channels, you cannot create the bootstrap repository, due to missing packages. |
The AppStream repository provides modular packages. This results in the SUSE Manager Web UI showing incorrect package information. You cannot perform package operations such as installing or upgrading directly from modular repositories using the Web UI or API. You can use the AppStream filter with content lifecycle management (CLM) to transform modular repositories into regular repositories.
Alternatively, you can use Salt states to manage modular packages on Salt clients, or use the |
Check Synchronization Status
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In the SUSE Manager Web UI, navigate to
and select theProducts
tab. This dialog displays a completion bar for each product when they are being synchronized. -
Alternatively, you can navigate to
, then click the channel associated to the repository. Navigate to theRepositories
tab, then clickSync
and checkSync Status
.
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At the command prompt on the SUSE Manager Server, as root, use the
tail
command to check the synchronization log file:tail -f /var/log/rhn/reposync/<channel-label>.log
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Each child channel generates its own log during the synchronization progress. You need to check all the base and child channel log files to be sure that the synchronization is complete.
Create an Activation Key
You need to create an activation key that is associated with your Oracle Linux channels.
For more information on activation keys, see client-configuration:activation-keys.adoc.
Trust GPG Keys on Clients
By default, some operating systems do not trust the GPG key for the SUSE Manager client tools. The clients can be successfully bootstrapped without the GPG key being trusted. However, you cannot install new client tool packages or update them until the keys are trusted.
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On the SUSE Manager Server, at the command prompt, check the contents of the
/srv/www/htdocs/pub/
directory. This directory contains all available public keys. Take a note of the key that applies to the client you are registering. -
Open the relevant bootstrap script, locate the
ORG_GPG_KEY=
parameter and add the required key. For example:uyuni-gpg-pubkey-0d20833e.key
You do not need to delete any previously stored keys.
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If you are bootstrapping clients from the SUSE Manager Web UI, you need to use a Salt state to trust the key. Create the Salt state and assign it to the organization. You can then use an activation key and configuration channels to deploy the key to the clients.
Register Clients
Oracle Linux clients are registered in the same way as all other clients. For more information, see client-configuration:registration-overview.adoc.
To register and use Oracle Linux 6 clients, you need to configure the SUSE Manager Server to support older types of SSL encryption.
For more information about how to resolve this error, see |