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