Activate AWS AMI obtained from CAL suse-sles-12-sp1-sapcal-v20180105-hvm-ssd-x86_64 (ami-e004968f)

[former_member590745]

We use an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) from CAL (Cloud Application Library) in AWS (Amazon Web Services).

Unfortunately I am unable to activate SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server).

AMI:

suse-sles-12-sp1-sapcal-v20180105-hvm-ssd-x86_64 (ami-e004968f)

I already tried:

 /usr/sbin/registercloudguest --force-new

Which results in :

vi /var/log/cloudregister

2018-07-17 11:15:28,679 INFO:Forced new registration
2018-07-17 11:15:28,690 INFO:Nothing to do no registration target
2018-07-17 11:15:28,691 INFO:Using API: regionInfo
2018-07-17 11:15:28,691 INFO:Using region server: 54.244.244.107
2018-07-17 11:15:28,694 INFO:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): 54.244.244.107
2018-07-17 11:15:29,332 INFO:Starting new HTTP connection (1): 54.93.131.24
2018-07-17 11:15:29,341 INFO:Modified /etc/hosts, added: 54.93.131.24   smt-ec2.susecloud.net   smt-ec2

2018-07-17 11:15:29,523 INFO:[Service] No SMT server found, nothing to do
2018-07-17 11:15:29,644 INFO:Writing SMT rootCA: /usr/share/pki/trust/anchors
2018-07-17 11:15:29,646 INFO:Starting new HTTP connection (1): 54.93.131.24
2018-07-17 11:15:29,649 INFO:Updating CA certificates: update-ca-certificates
2018-07-17 11:15:31,087 ERROR:Registration with 54.93.131.24 failed. Trying 54.93.130.182
2018-07-17 11:15:31,088 INFO:Clean current registration server: 54.93.131.24
2018-07-17 11:15:31,088 INFO:Modified /etc/hosts, added: 54.93.130.182  smt-ec2.susecloud.net   smt-ec2

2018-07-17 11:15:31,801 ERROR:Baseproduct registration failed
2018-07-17 11:15:31,801 ERROR:  Error: SCC returned 'Guest verification failed repository access denied' (403)

So how to activate SLES obtained from CAL ?

[former_member196674]

Hello,

the list of all CAL solutions is available on this link: https://cal.sap.com/catalog#/solutions

Best Regards

Aleksandar

[former_member590745]

OK thanks for pointing out where we got the Image from.

The question is however how to activate SLES in order to install additional software.

(The image is revoked but we still use it until our software is migrated to HANA 2.0)

[georgi_stankov]

Hi Thorsten,

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 64bit HVM is available directly from AWS via the AWS Marketplace. It is a public image.

Best Regards,

Georgi

[former_member590745]

Yes I know. But we need also a running HANA on the SUSE

[stanimir_eisner]

Hi,

You can leverage SAP CAL to get HANA on SUSE. There are several HANA only solutions. For example https://cal.sap.com/catalog#/solutions/d6f5e149-784a-43eb-9dce-58b377d8f440 or https://cal.sap.com/catalog#/solutions/95d48b9b-aedc-4365-8d0d-f6674e10bc7b

Best regards,

Stanimir

[former_member344107]

The main question is really: in order to add items to the CAL public image, the SUSE registration seems to be needed. According to AWS the SUSE images in the cloud can be activated using the above command, but that does not seem to work for the SAP CAL sourced images (we are getting not the failed registration, but it does not complete it either - last log entry is this: INFO:[Service] No SMT server found, nothing to do). Is there an alternate to get the repositories connected? This is needed for adding a package to ensure the latest security patches can be applied, etc.