Appliance Security Updates and Eyeglass Updates with HTTP Proxy

Many customers use proxy access to the Internet, and require configuration of HTTP proxy on devices that need access to the Internet on port 80.

Eyeglass updates are hosted for online updates, and Operating System updates are also reachable with HTTP for security and package adds with zypper.

Steps to configure HTTP proxy for Eyeglass:

1. Login via SSH and admin password.
2. sudo -s (switch to root).
3. yast  (run yast).
4. Navigate to the screen shots below to enter proxy configuration details:
   1. URL.
   2. User id and password.
   3. NOTE:  You can also encode the user and password into the URL and may be required for some proxy devices
      1. example  url  http://username:password@proxyaddress:port

Note: This is untested with various proxy software solutions and not supported under maintenance contracts.