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Version Revision History

  • May 2019: RC 1 release

  • May 3rd 2019: Beta 3 release

  • April 9th, 2019: 4.0 Beta 2 release

  • March 13th, 2019: 4.0 Beta 1 release

About SUSE Manager Proxy

SUSE Manager Proxy is an add-on to SUSE Manager Server that provides mirroring proxy support. This allows for load distribution and improved scalability.

Operation of the proxy is completely transparent. The SUSE Manager Proxy looks like a managed client to SUSE Manager Server, and like a Server to the managed clients. Managed clients only talk to the Proxy Server which in turn communicates to the SUSE Manager Server.

All software packages that pass the Proxy Server are cached and subsequent client requests for these packages are resolved from the cache.

System Requirements

SUSE Manager Proxy Server is available for x86_64 architecture only. We recommend you have at least 2GB main memory, and approximately 50GB of disk space per distribution or channel.

For more details on system requirements, see the Installation Guide on https://opensource.suse.com/doc-susemanager/.

SUSE Manager Proxy distribution

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 is distributed as a product containing the SUSE Manager Proxy application and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 for x86-64.

Installation and Setup

Installation of SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 is done via the SUSE Manager Server 4 web interface.

For more details on installing and configuring SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0, see the Installation Guide on https://opensource.suse.com/doc-susemanager/.

Upgrade from version 3.2

To upgrade an existing SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2 system to SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0, you can do an in-place upgrade, or you can set up a new system to replace the old one.

For more information about upgrading, see the Upgrade Guide on https://opensource.suse.com/doc-susemanager/.

Upgrade from version 3.1 or older

In-place updates from SUSE Manager Proxy 3.1 or older are not supported. You will need to install a new system with SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0.

SUSE Manager Server versions

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 works only with SUSE Manager 4.0 Server.

SUSE Manager Server 4.0 work with SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2 and later.

Major changes since SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2

Prometheus Monitoring

As part of the first preview of the Monitoring feature, packages are now included for the latest versions of Prometheus and Grafana. These Prometheus exporters are also included, for SLE12 and SLE15:

These exporters will be pre-installed on SUSE Manager Proxy as part of its self-monitoring features. Together they will provide hardware, operating system, and HTTP Proxy metrics.

Formulas update for Retail Branch Server

Formulas used to operate a SUSE Manager for Retail Branch Server were updated to support a SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP1 environment.

Salt 2019.2.0

Salt has been upgraded to the 2019.2.0 release.

We intend to regularly upgrade Salt to more recent versions.

For more detail about changes in your manually-created Salt states, see the Salt upstream release notes: 2019.2.

Base system upgrade

The base system was upgraded to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1. As a result, all code was ported to run with Python 3.

Providing feedback

If you encounter a bug in any SUSE product, please report it through your support contact.

Documentation and other information

Latest product documentation: https://opensource.suse.com/doc-susemanager/

Technical product information for SUSE Manager: http://www.suse.com/products/suse-manager/technical-information

These release notes are available online: http://www.suse.com/releasenotes

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