General Requirements
Before you begin your installation, check that your environment meets these requirements:
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Current SUSE Customer Center organization credentials
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Access to installation media
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Your environment meets the hardware and networking requirements
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You understand the supported client operating systems
This section contains more information on each of these requirements.
SUSE Manager 4.0 is based on SLES 15 SP1 as the host operating system. SUSE Manager comes with a dedicated support period. Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) for 15 cannot be added to SUSE Manager. It is also not possible to use SLES for SAP as a base for SUSE Manager for a longer lifecycle. |
Obtaining your SUSE Customer Center Credentials
You will need to create an account with SUSE Customer Center before you install SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Manager. To obtain your SUSE Customer Center credentials:
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Navigate to https://scc.suse.com/login in your Web browser.
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Log in to your SCC account, or follow the prompts to create a new account.
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If you have not yet done so, click
Connect to an organization
and type or search for your organization. -
Click
Manage my organizations
and select your organization from the list by clicking on the organization name. -
Click the
Organization
tab, and then select theOrganization Credentials
tab. -
Record your login information for use during SUSE Manager setup.
Depending on your organization’s setup, you might also need to activate your subscription, using the Activate subscriptions
menu.
Obtaining Installation Media
From SLES 15 SP1, SUSE Manager Server and Proxy is available as a base product, and can be installed with the SLES Unified Installer.
Therefore you do not require a separate registration code for SLES 15 SP1, only for Server or Proxy
Download SLES 15 SP1 or higher from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - Media Download