How do I get my ActivationCode for a SUSE 12 SP4 bought in Azure?

David Soares Araujo 1 Reputation point
2021-06-16T21:23:34+00:00

I've just set a new VM using a SUSE 12 SP4 image from Azure Marketplace.
How can I get the ActivationCode to register this server?

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  1. prmanhas-MSFT 17,946 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2021-06-17T08:29:06.32+00:00

    @David Soares Araujo Thank you for your query!!!

    You should be able to get Activation Code to register the server in a similar way you would do for general SUSE sever as well.

    You can refer to below documentation to understand the steps involved:

    https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/

    https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP4/html/SLES-all/art-sle-installquick.html

    Same have been linked on our official docs here as well.

    More info here as well.

    Hope it helps!!!

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  2. prmanhas-MSFT 17,946 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2021-06-19T05:59:34.99+00:00

    @David Soares Araujo Thank you for your patience over the matter. I reached out to our internal team and below are their inputs:

    You can have only two types in Azure BYOL or PAYG. This note may help to identify:

    Identify the image is PAYG or BYOS from guest OS.

    Execute the below command as root (or sudo) and check the billingTag information.

    /usr/sbin/azuremetadata -t
    If the billingTag comes with non-zero values, then it is PAYG image.
    root:~ # /usr/sbin/azuremetadata -t
    {
    "billingTag" : "8dc8640d-6d81-41f8-8d7b-7715fc590a30"
    }

    root:~ #
    If the billingTag comes with zero values, then it is BYOS image:

    root:~ # /usr/sbin/azuremetadata -t
    {
    "billingTag" : "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
    }
    root:~ #

    So if the customer does have a support contract with SUSE then they should get in touch with them about the missing keys.

    Maybe that helps as well: https://www.suse.com/products/register.pdf

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  3. Nilson Gonçalves 1 Reputation point
    2021-09-27T20:24:38.46+00:00

    @prmanhas-MSFT ,

    Not worked for me, do you can help me?


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