Attendees will be taught the following concepts and skills:
- 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
- Locate desired managed clients by using the Web UI’s advanced search capabilities
- View the system details of managed clients
- Understand the Registration Process and what occurs during Registration
- Create, configure, and manage Registration related object 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 Channel related terminology and channel types
- Clone Channel content
- Implement Configuration Channels
- Understand and implement Content Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- Learn how to delegate management authority in SUMA:
- Understand how and why additional SUMA Organizations may need to be created
- Establishing trust between SUMA Organizations
- Learn about the Administrative Roles and Permission Roles that can be created and assigned to manage SUMA resources
- Creating new Web UI administrative users
- Manage client servers using Salt:
- Define Salt and understand its architecture
- Understand Salt grains, pillars, and states
- Learn how to leverage the salt, salt-run, salt-call, and salt-key commands
- Perform common administrative tasks such as:
- Using the Web UI to execute commands on remote client servers
- Using the System Set Manager (SSM) to perform management activities on multiple client servers at one time
- Creating and using Action Chains
- Understand and use various methods for installing RPM packages on client servers
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