Duration
3 days
Overview
This course focuses on the day-to-day administrative tasks made easier to complete and monitor with SUSE Manager. Generally, the major topics cover the SUSE Manager (SUMA) Web UI Management Console, implementing channel management, delegating management authority in SUMA, managing minions using Salt commands, and performing common administrative activities.
Audience
- Server system administrators who are tasked with day-to-day server management and support
- Senior system administrators who are typically second or third level support within their company and act as “team leads” for server system administrators
- Consultants that need to understand how SUSE Manager significantly lessens the administrative burden of managing hundreds, or even thousands, of servers
Prerequisites
- This training reviews installing and configuring SUMA servers and proxy servers. However, the course assumes that attendees are responsible for day-to-day management tasks. Detailed information on installation and initial configuration of SUMA is in HJ7L2S: SUSE Manager 4 Deployment and Initial Configuration (SMGR211v4). Attendance in HJ7L2S is helpful, but not required.
- Attendees must have at least one year of experience managing Linux operating systems.
- Attendees must be able to work at the Linux command-line and use the vi editor.
- Attendees need to understand how to manually install packages on SUSE Linux Enterprise servers.
Course objectives
- Review the SUMA Architectural Components (SUMA Server, SUMA Proxy Server, and Managed Clients)
- Understand the parts of the SUMA Web UI and how to access it
- Using the SUMA Web UI to get an overview of your entire SUMA system via the visualization feature, and locate desired managed clients by using the Web UI’s advanced search capabilities
- Understand the registration process and what occurs during registration
- Create, configure, and manage registration related objects such as activation keys, channels, system groups, and Salt Keys
- Plan for, and implement registration using the Web UI and bootstrap scripts
- Implement channel management
- Learn how to delegate management authority in SUMA
- Manage client servers using Salt
- Perform common administrative tasks, such as using the Web UI, to execute commands on remote client servers and create and use action chains
Section 2: Review SUSE Manager (SUMA) 4 Architecture and Configuration
- Review SUMA architectural components
- Review the SUMA 4 initial setup process
Section 3: Using the Web UI to Explore your SUSE Manager Environment
- Introduction to the SUMA Web UI
- Visualizing your entire SUMA system at a glance
- Locating and viewing information about managed clients
Section 4: Understanding the Registration Process
- Understanding the importance of registration
- Managing registration-related objects
- Planning for registration
- Introduction to registration methods
- Using the registration methods to register target servers
Section 5: Implementing Channel Management
- Understanding channel-related terminology
- Cloning channel content
- Implementing custom channels
- Understanding content lifecycle management
Section 6: Delegating Management Authority in SUSE Manager
- Defining SUSE Manager “organization”
- Understanding the administrative roles in SUMA
- Understanding permission roles and their capabilities
- Using the Web UI to manage users and grant permissions
Section 7: Managing Salt Minions in SUMA
- Understanding Salt and its architecture
- Configuration files used by Salt and SUMA
- Understanding the types of Salt commands
- Using the salt command
- Using the salt-run command
- Using the salt-call command
- Using the salt-key command
Section 8: Performing other Common Administrative Tasks in SUMA
- Using the Web UI to execute remote commands
- Leveraging the system set manager (SSM) to affect many managed servers at once
- Implementing action chains
- Using configuration file management in SUMA
- Scheduling highstate enforcement
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.