Building a new RMT Server with the RGS Customer Center

Introduction

This tutorial will guide you through setting up a RMT Server with the RGS Customer Center

Overview / PreRequisites

We will be building a new RMT server and connecting it to the RGS Customer Center. You will need your Registration Codes and Organization Credentials from the RGS delivery email

Steps

• You'll want to download the SLES 15SP6 ISO (pick a 'QU' version, it's the latest updated, 'GM' is the very first in the Service Pack lifecycle).
  • Spin it up on a VM with a good amount of storage
    • 200GB+ recommended, and you must ensure you have the ability to expand later if more storage is required
  • Skip registration during the ISO install
• After installation, register the base system, using the Registration Codes at the bottom of your RGS Delivery email.

  • Log into your system via SSH. Run the following command:

    SUSEConnect --url https://rgscc.ranchergovernment.com --write-config -r <REGCODE FROM RGS>

  • Refresh zypper

    zypper ref

  • Update your system

    zypper up

• Once the base OS is registered and updated, install rmt-server on it

  • zypper install rmt-server yast2-rmt nginx mariadb

• Once rmt-server and it's dependencies are installed, configure rmt-server itself

  • yast rmt

  • Note, when you input the OrgCreds, it'll fail (because it still wants to connect scc.suse.com). That's expected. Ignore those errors and continue
  • Complete the rest of the setup
• Switch rmt-server over to the RGS Customer Center

  • Edit/Adjust the following section of '/etc/rmt.conf', and add the 'host:' line under the 'scc' section

    scc:
      username: <YOUR RGS ORG CRED USERNAME>
      password: <YOUR RGS ORG CRED PASSWORD>
      host: https://rgscc.ranchergovernment.com/connect

  • Restart rmt-server and sync the database for updated information

    systemctl restart rmt-server ; rmt-cli sync

• You can now enable the products that you need:

rmt-cli products list --all
rmt-cli products enable $ID $ID $ID $ID
rmt-cli mirror