How To Register OES and SLES Servers Using Command Line and a Script
It is important to keep your servers at the current patch level. Usually there are many bugs fixed and if you come across a new issue it helps Novell Support the the Developers.
I like to use the command line to register my servers. It is easy and relatively fast compared to the GUI. Even easier is to use a script. Just copy the script to the server, modify the e-mail account and registration codes and run the script. If something happens to the update services and repositories just run the script to clean up the old and re-register.
Below is a video demonstrating the register.sh script
TID 3030847 goes over the command line process.
Note: do not include < > for email or regcodes in the examples below
The command to register a OES server is
suse_register -a email=<user@email.com> -a regcode-sles=<your sles code>… Continue reading
VMWare and best practices for Timekeeping
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests for timekeeping best practices for VMWare
VMWare has a great support article on this. Below are the SLES recommendations. The article can be found here
| SLES 11 (All updates) | No additional kernel parameters required. | |
| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 5.0 and later | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP1 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 9 (All updates) | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 8 | No additional kernel parameters required.… Continue reading |
Creating a SLES11 Install source
Creating an install source is extremely easy to do with YaST. Just follow the installation server wizard.
To create a single SLES+OES DVD follow Simon’s Coolsolution Article