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You have more than just a few Linux servers to manage, maybe even a mixed environment of RHEL and SLES?
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SUSE Manager gives you best-in-class open source infrastructure management with new enhancements focused on improving DevOps efficiency, with both RHEL and SLES support from one unified console, maintained and improved by the guys who wrote the fastest and most advanced Linux update stack on the planet.
SUSE Manager gives you the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership for your Linux environment, from bare metal provisioning to daily patch management. SUSE Manager is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution that allows you to:
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Bugs fixed.
Full support for SSH minions on Action Chain.
SLES 15 utilizes Python 3 as its default system version. Due to this change any older bootstrap scripts (based on python 2) must be regenerated for SLES 15 systems.
Attempting to register SLES 15 systems with SUSE Manager using Python 2 versions of the bootstrap script will fail.
Online help (bubbles) and interactive documentation does not work. Please use the PDF documentation at the "Help" section (on the left menu). To be fixed on GMC.
Many bugs fixed.
Salt has been upgraded to the final 2018.3.0 release.
The upstream project released version 2.8 and SUSE Manager 3.2 Beta 3 is now based on this release.
Support for SLE-15 clients is now complete. Note that you still need a SLE-15 beta registration code in order to access this product.
SUSE Manager now detects the client's Python version (Python 2.6 - SLE 11, Python 2.7 - SLE 12, Python 3 - SLE 15) and adapts salt-ssh code accordingly.
Updating Salt via patch is now handled properly.
Upgrade from version 3.1 of SUSE Manager Server is now supported. Please follow the upgrade instructions outlined below.
Preliminary support for SLE-15 clients has been added. You need to have a SLE-15 beta registration code in order to access this product.
Action chains are enabled for Salt minions now. It works like action chains for traditional clients, see the documentation for details.
The following actions are supported in Beta2:
Known issues (to be fixed in Beta3):
SUSE Manager 3.2 Server is an extension for SLES 12 SP3 for x86-64, Power Systems (ppc64le), or z Systems (s390x).
This means that installation is done in two steps
This addresses the need of enterprise deployments to standardize on the base operating system as well as specific storage setups.
It is strongly recommended to use SUSE Manager with the embedded database. PostgreSQL is only supported as a local (embedded) database.
The SUSE Manager 3.2 Server Beta registration code, matching your hardware architecture, can be used to register the SLES 12 SP3 base system as well.
You'll need a physical or virtual SLES 12 SP3 x86_64, ppc64le, or s390x system to install SUSE Manager 3.2 Server.
When you install and register SLES 12 SP3, SUSE Manager 3.2 Server will show up in the list of available extensions.
You'll need a valid SUSE Manager 3.2 Server Beta registration code to access this extension.
You can update from SUSE Manager 3.1 Server to SUSE Manager 3.2 Server.
Updates from older versions are not supported.
The actual upgrade can be done as a two-step or a one-step approach.
The two-step approach migrates the SUSE Manager 3.1 Server to SLES 12 SP3 first, followed by an update to SUSE Manager 3.2 Server.
The one-step approach migrates the SUSE Manager 3.1 Server to SUSE Manager 3.2 Server together with the service pack migration of the base system from SLES 12 SP1 to SLES 12 SP3.
See the best practices manual for detailed instructions on how to upgrade.
All connected clients will continue to run and are manageable unchanged.
Is conditionally supported with SUSE Manager 3.2 Server.
If you have the need to migrate from RHN Satellite to SUSE Manager 3.2 Server, please get in contact with a SUSE sales engineer or a SUSE consultant before starting the migration.
The SUSE Patch Finder is a simple online service to view released patches.
SUSE Manager 3.2 Server can work with version 3.1 of SUSE Manager Proxy.
When upgrading, upgrade the server first, followed by proxies. See the advanced topics manual for detailed upgrade instructions.
SUSE Manager 3.2 Server is based on Spacewalk 2.8 with many new features added by SUSE.
Salt has been upgraded to the 2018.3.0 release.
We do intend to upgrade Salt regularly to more recent versions.
Note: Changes from the upstream project are listed here as-is. There's no guarantee that all of them are actually available in SUSE Manager 3.2 Server.
channel.listManageableChannels
schedule.failSystemAction
proxy.createMonitoringScout
satellite.isMonitoringEnabled
satellite.isMonitoringEnabledBySystemId
When handling Service Requests, supporters and engineers may ask for the output of the supportconfig tool from the SUSE Manager Server or clients.
The standard disclaimer applies:
Detailed system information and logs are collected and organized in a manner that helps reduce service request resolution times. Private system information can be disclosed when using this tool. If this is a concern, please prune private data from the log files. Several startup options are available to exclude more sensitive information. Supportconfig data is used only for diagnostic purposes and is considered confidential information.
In the SUSE Manager Server's case, please be aware that supportconfig's output will contain information about clients as well.
In particular, debug data for the Subscription Matching feature contain a list of the registered clients, their installed product and some minimal hardware information (CPU socket count). It also contains a copy of subscription data available from the SUSE Customer Center.
If this is a concern, please prune data in the subscription-matcher directory in the spacewalk-debug tarball.
All software components embedded into SUSE Manager, like Cobbler for PXE booting, are only supported in the context of SUSE Manager. Stand-alone usage is not supported.
Managing Red Hat clients requires availability of appropriate Red Hat packages. These are not available through the SUSE Customer Center (SCC) but must be provided by other means, e.g. from a retired Red Hat Satellite installation.
The SUSE Manager engineering team provides 'best effort' support for products past their end-of-life date. See the Product Support Lifecycle page.
This support is limited to scenarios to bring production systems to a supported state. Either by migrating to a supported service pack or by upgrading to a supported product version.
spacewalk-utils, a packaged set of command line tools, continues to be L1* supported only - with some exceptions. Any of these commands needs expertise and can break your system. However, we consider these tools valuable enough to be included, but not fully supported.
* L1 (Problem determination, which means technical support designed to provide compatibility information, usage support, on-going maintenance, information gathering and basic troubleshooting using available documentation.)
The following tools of spacewalk-utils are fully supported:
In case of encountering a bug please report it through your support contact.
Technical Information: SUSE Manager contains additional or updated documentation for SUSE Manager Server 3.2.
These Release Notes are available online. Further information about SUSE Manager is available [in the Wiki http://wiki.microfocus.com/index.php/SUSE_Manager]
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