Trouble adding the Client Tools channel for Suse Manager

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I set up a Suse Manager server and synced a couple of the channels that we have available. According to the documentation for Suse Manager you need to import the client tools channel to provide packages that the clients need to be able to be managed by the Suse Manager server.

The only things I see that list “tools” in their name show up as being unavailable:

# mgr-ncc-sync -l | grep tools
    [X] sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware
    [X] sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware
    [X] sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware
    [X] sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware
    [X] sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware-sp3
    [X] sles11-sp3-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware-sp3
    [X] sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware-sp3
    [X] sles11-sp3-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware-sp3

If I attempt to schedule a sync for the repos, I get an error saying they are not mirrorable:

for i in sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware sles11-sp3-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware-sp3; do mgr-ncc-sync -c $i; done

The following channel(s) are no longer mirrorable: 
sle11-smt-updates-x86_64-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-updates-i586-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-x86_64-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-x86_64-vmware-sp3
Channel sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware is not mirrorable.
The following channel(s) are no longer mirrorable: 
sle11-smt-updates-x86_64-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-updates-i586-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-x86_64-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-x86_64-vmware-sp3
Channel sles11-sp2-suse-manager-tools-i586-vmware is not mirrorable.
The following channel(s) are no longer mirrorable: 
sle11-smt-updates-x86_64-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-i586-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-updates-i586-vmware
sle11-smt-sp3-pool-x86_64-vmware-sp3
sle11-smt-sp3-updates-x86_64-vmware-sp3
Channel sles11-sp1-suse-manager-tools-x86_64-vmware is not mirrorable.

What is the proper way to add the client tools repository so clients can be added to the manager?

Thanks for any help you can give.

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Hi, you posted in the openSUSE forums, you’re better off at http://forums.suse.com

3

Thanks. I added a response to a similar topic there. That topic contained a link to the repositories so I am going to try manually downloading the packages and building a custom repo to see if it will work.