After you install Sentinel, you need to perform additional configuration for the appliance to work properly.
The Sentinel appliance user interface is equipped with WebYaST, which is a Web-based remote console for controlling appliances based on SUSE Linux Enterprise. You can access, configure, and monitor the Sentinel appliances with WebYaST. The following procedure briefly describes the steps to configure WebYaST. For more information on detailed configuration, see the WebYaST User Guide.
Log in to the Sentinel appliance.
Click .
Configure the Sentinel Server to receive updates as described in Section 12.4.3, Registering for Updates.
Click to finish the initial setup.
You can add partitions in the appliance and move a directory to the new partition by using the YaST tool.
Use the following procedure to create a new partition and move the data files from its directory to the newly created partition:
Log in to Sentinel as root.
Run the following command to stop the Sentinel on the appliance:
/etc/init.d/sentinel stop
Specify the following command to change to novell user:
su - novell
Move the contents of the directory at /var/opt/novell/sentinel to a temporary location.
Change to root user.
Enter the following command to access the YaST2 Control Center:
yast
Select .
Read the warning and select to add the new unused partition.
Mount the new partition at /var/opt/novell/sentinel.
Specify the following command to change to novell user:
su - novell
Move the contents of the data directory from the temporary location (where it was saved in Step 4) back to /var/opt/novell/sentinel in the new partition.
Run the following command to restart the Sentinel appliance:
/etc/init.d/sentinel start
You must register the Sentinel appliance with the appliance update channel to receive patch updates. To register the appliance, you must first obtain your appliance registration code or the appliance activation key from the Novell Customer Care Center.
Use the following steps to register the appliance for updates:
Log in to the Sentinel appliance.
Click to launch WebYaST.
Click .
Specify the e-mail ID that you want to receive updates, then specify the system name and the appliance registration code.
Click .
In secured environments where the appliance must run without direct Internet access, you can configure the appliance with the Subscription Management Tool (SMT), which enables you to upgrade the appliance to the latest versions of Sentinel as they are released. SMT is a package proxy system that is integrated with Novell Customer Center and provides key Novell Customer Center capabilities.
Get the Novell Customer Center credentials for Sentinel to get updates from Novell. For information on getting the credentials, contact Novell Support.
Ensure that SLES 11 SP2 is installed with the following packages on the machine where you want to install SMT:
htmldoc
perl-DBIx-Transaction
perl-File-Basename-Object
perl-DBIx-Migration-Director
perl-MIME-Lite
perl-Text-ASCIITable
yum-metadata-parser
createrepo
perl-DBI
apache2-prefork
libapr1
perl-Data-ShowTable
perl-Net-Daemon
perl-Tie-IxHash
fltk
libapr-util1
perl-PIRPC
apache2-mod_perl
apache2-utils
apache2
perl-DBD-mysql
Install SMT and configure the SMT server. For more information, refer to the following sections in the SMT documentation:
SMT Installation
SMT Server Configuration
Mirroring Installation and Update Repositories with SMT
Install the wget utility on the appliance computer.
For information on configuring the appliance with SMT, see the Subscription Management Tool (SMT) for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 documentation.
To enable the appliance repositories, execute the following command:
smt-repos -e Sentinel-Server-7.0-Updates sle-11-x86_64
smt-repos -e Sentinel-Collector-Manager-7.0-Updates sle-11-x86_64
smt-repos -e Sentinel-Correlation-Engine-7.0-Updates sle-11-x86_64
For information about upgrading the appliance, see Section 21.3, Upgrading the Appliance by Using SMT.