SUSE Manager for Retail Documentation

SUSE Manager for Retail Overview Doc

Overview

• Title: "Getting Started with SUSE Manager for Retail"
• Purpose: To explain what SUSE Manager for Retail is, what its components are, deployment architecture etc (specifically how it differs from a general SUMA environment).

Overview of Project Schedule and Major Milestones

Milestone	Start	End
Planning	Wk32	Wk33
1st Draft	Wk34	Wk35
2nd Draft	Wk36	Wk 37
Review	Wk38	Wk39
Publication	Wk40	Wk40
Retro	Wk41	Wk42

This schedule has the documentation being published at the end of Week 40, 5 October.

Content

• See https://github.com/SUSE/doc-susemanager/pull/145 for initial draft content from @aaannz

Proposed ToC

• Introduction
  • What is SUSE Manager for Retail?
  • Who should you use SUSE Manager for Retail?
• SUSE Manager Retail Components
  • Software Components
    • SUSE Manager Server
    • Image build host
    • SUSE Manager for Retail Branch Server
  • Fitting it all together
• Get Started with SUSE Manager for Retail
  • Installation
  • Initial setup
  • Basic Administration
• What Next?
  • More documentation
  • Support

Changes Required to Existing SUMA Docs Suite

No changes to this doc at this stage, as we will not be building Retail-specific docs.

Entity updates

• Add SUSE Manager Server entity (to avoid conflict when using {productname} other than SUMA)
  • {smr} => SUSE Manager for Retail
  • {susemgr} => SUSE Manager
  • {productname} : undefined in the 'Getting Started with SUSE Manager for Retail' Guide
• Add SUSE Manager for Retail entity (for future use, we will not be building this target in the short term)