# Question on Authenticating Cloud Images **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE OpenStack Cloud\ **Created:** [April 21, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958 "2015-04-21T02:50:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jerobinson24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jerobinson24](https://forums.suse.com/u/jerobinson24)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/1 "2015-04-21T02:50:57Z")
Hi, If I want to use a SUSE image (SuSe SLE11 SP3) in an OpenStack public cloud offering, what are the licensing/validation requirements for running that image? and what is the process associated with validation and updating the image? I’m not sure if I need consistent public network connectivity for the license to validate itself against a SuSe license server on boot each time or if I need a licensing server that sits on that network for my virtual machines to validate against. Thanks in Advance. Jamal ---
**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 7:53pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/2 "2015-04-21T19:53:22Z")
Hi Jamal, AFAICT there’s no “licensing server” involved. You’d only need connectivity to fetch upgrades from SUSE - which will then check your registration and license status, on the SUSE server. As to the currently valid licensing options, this may vary significantly depending on site licenses etc, so I believe this is beyond the scope of this forum. Do you have a current SUSE sales contact at hand? I’m sure they’d be happy to assist in determining the available options… Regards, Jens ---
**Author:** ![jerobinson24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jerobinson24](https://forums.suse.com/u/jerobinson24)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/3 "2015-04-22T19:24:12Z")
Hey Jens, Thanks for the quick response. There is a sales contact that exist for our company somewhere but as we are a pretty large company (100K+ employees) and our license info is hard to track down. In the mean time I have done some reading on the Subscription Management Tool manual and think I have the authentication process down. I think it is 1 - Install SMT from Novell/Suse Customer Center with appropriate subscription list for my clients 2 - SMT mirrors the appropriate updates/repos from N/SCC 3 - Build client image with requrl and reqcert parameters set in the kernel 4 - Every time authentication/update needed, they point to local SMT to process that job I even found this diagram ![](https://www.suse.com/communities/media/u4019/fig-1_smt-overview_0.png) My question now is can I do the authentication/updates without the SMT and point those machines to the N/SCC? The SMT manual shows the requrl and reqcert being set in examples Example: regurl=https://smt.example.com/center/regsvc/ Example: regcert=http://smt.example.com/smt.crt With no SMT what would I set those to on the clients to point the N/SCC for my company? Thanks, Jamal ---
**Author:** ![Jens-U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Jens-U](https://forums.suse.com/u/Jens-U)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/4 "2015-04-22T19:44:19Z")
Hi Jamal, > My question now is can I do the authentication/updates without the SMT and point those machines to the N/SCC? actually, that is the standard way of doing things when you only have a few machines 😉 SMT typically enters the picture if you have more than a few machines, either to reduce network traffic by mirroring the SUSE repositories, or to be able to control update installation by manually enabling patches via a local testing/production repository setup within SMT. You can simply use YaST to register the machine to NCC/SCC (the according dialog will even be presented during install, but can be called later as well). No specific configuration is required for this. Regards, Jens ---
**Author:** ![jerobinson24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jerobinson24](https://forums.suse.com/u/jerobinson24)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/5 "2015-04-22T20:45:07Z")
Thanks a lot for your responses Jens. I was just coming back to report I think I found my solution [HERE](https://www.novell.com/documentation/oes11/inst_oes_lx/data/b9xir3a.html). I plan on using a cloud init script and upon launch of each VM run # suse\_register -a [email=joe@example.com](mailto:email=joe@example.com) -a regcode-sles=4adab769abc68 -a regcode-oes=30a74ebb94fa as the root user which should authenticate me against my SCC account. Now it is just a matter of getting in contact with the right person in our Software Right’s Management team who has access 😕. Thanks again, Jamal ---
**Author:** ![jerobinson24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jerobinson24](https://forums.suse.com/u/jerobinson24)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/question-on-authenticating-cloud-images/26958/6 "2015-04-22T20:49:55Z")
Repped for support! 🆒