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You have more than just a few Linux servers to manage, maybe even a mixed environment of RHEL and SLES?
Then SUSE Manager is the answer.
SUSE Manager gives you best of breed Linux lifecycle management based on the most mature codebase for any Linux management tool, 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:
You can stay up-to-date regarding information about SUSE Manager and SUSE products:
SUSE Manager 3 Server is an extension for SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 or s390x.
This means that, unlike SUSE Manager 2.1 Server, 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.
Attention Your SUSE Manager Server registration code is valid for the base operating system as well as the SUSE Manager 3 extension.
You'll need a physical or virtual SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 or s390x system to install SUSE Manager 3.
When you install and register SLES 12 SP1, SUSE Manager 3 Server will show up in the list of available extensions.
You'll need a SUSE Manager Server registration code to access this extension.
In-place updates from previous versions of SUSE Manager Server are not supported.
Upgrade from SUSE Manager 2.1 Server to SUSE Manager 3 Server is done by choosing the 2.1 Server as a migration source when running ``yast2 susemanager_setup``
See this wiki page for a detailed description of the required steps.
All connected clients will continue to run and are manageable unchanged.
Note that the SUSE Manager 2.1 Server needs to have PostgreSQL as its database.
Data migration from SUSE Manager 2.1 with Oracle Database is not possible.
You need to first migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL database as outlined in the SUSE Manager 2.1 Server documentation.
Is conditionally supported with SUSE Manager 3 Server.
If you have the need to migrate from RHN Satellite to SUSE Manager 3, please get in contact with a SUSE sales engineer or a SUSE consultant before starting the migration.
spacewalk-utils now contains taskotop, a command line tool to
visualize the taskomatic schedule.
The SUSE Patch Finder is a simple online service to view released patches.
This update fixes the following issues:
salt:
spacewalk-service stop
3. Apply the patch using either zypper patch or YaST Online Update.
4. Upgrade the database schema:
spacewalk-schema-upgrade
5. Start the Spacewalk service:
spacewalk-service start
This update fixes the following issues for the SUSE Manager Server 3.0 and Client Tools:
zypp-plugin-spacewalk:
This update for salt contains the following:
SUSE Manager 3 Server is based on Spacewalk 2.4 with many new features added by SUSE.
The SUSE Manager 3 documentation was rewritten from scratch and is not derived from the upstream Spacewalk documentation any more.
SUSE Manager 3 comes with four manuals
All manuals will see regular updates and will be available online at www.suse.com.
SUSE Manager 3 Server removed all entitlement counting code and instead ships with subscription matching abilities. This is implemented in two parts:
The subscription matcher uses the subscription information from SUSE Customer Center and automatically matches those to known hosts.
A pre-requirement to match subscriptions to systems is to have complete information about which virtual system runs on which virtual host. See topology awareness below on how to have SUSE Manager 3 Server gather this information.
The result is stored in /var/lib/spacewalk/subscription-matcher as CSV files. A web UI will be added later.
See the SUSE Manager Reference Manual for further details about subscription matching.
The tool virtual-host-gatherer is used to collect data about virtual machines running on virtual hosts.
This creates a topology mesh used by the subscription matcher.
See the SUSE Manager Reference Manual for further details about virtual-host-gatherer
Configuration management is about to see the biggest impact when moving from SUSE Manager 2.1 Server to SUSE Manager 3 Server as it changes from an imperative to a declarative model.
Instead of "install package X at this time", it's now "ensure package X is installed from this time on".
SUSE Manager 3 Server uses Salt from SaltStack Inc. as the client-side agent.
See the SaltStack walk-through for a quick introduction to Salt.
The traditional client stack (aka rhnsd) is still fully supported but deprecated. You do not need to make any changes to existing clients when
moving from SUSE Manager 2.1 Server to SUSE Manager 3 Server.
SUSE Manager 3 Server comes with a preconfigured salt-master based on the official 2015.8.7 release.
Any system able to run a salt-minion can be connected to SUSE Manager 3 Server as a managed client.
Initially only SLES 11 SP4, SLES 12 GA, and SLES 12 SP1 clients are supported.
SUSE Manager 3 Server provides and supports the Salt API as-is. This API will follow upstream Salt and might change at any time as Salt gets updated.
Package downloads are now using a new implementation which should have far less overhead for the SUSE Manager Server.
Package downloads itself will not be faster, but should scale better. Feedback welcome !
The monitoring component of SUSE Manager Server has been dropped. Instead a lightweight integration with Icinga is planned.
A fully supported Icinga package for SLES 12 is available via the SUSE Manager Tools channel.
SUSE Manager 3 Server does not initally support Oracle as a database backend.
Existing SUSE Manager 2.1 Server deployments with Oracle should be migrated to PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL has similar functionality and performance characteristics as Oracle but uses dramatically fewer resources.
Going forward, we will focus on PostgreSQL for all scalability and performance improvements.
SUSE Manager is no longer an appliance but now an extension on top of SLES 12 SP1 x86_64 or s390x and available via SUSE Customer Center
This means you can set up the base operating system according to your needs and requirements. SUSE Manager 3 will add all required packages automatically during installation.
All storage setup (esp. for /var/lib/pgsql and /var/spacewalk) should be done before installation of SUSE Manager 3 Server.
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.
transparent huge pages are enabled.
See here
for background information and
this blog post
on how to disable transparent huge pages.
rhn-entitlement-report dropped
The entitlement handling is replaced by the subscription matcher, which much better reflects business relations.
notify_threshold changed the default value
In SUSE Manager 2.1 the default was unlimited while in SUSE Manager 3 the default is 100.
postgrestcl dropped
removes spacewalk-report audit-users, spacewalk-report audit-servers, and spacewalk-report audit-server-groups
In ISS (Inter Server Sync) setups, upgrade all slaves to 3 before upgrading the master.
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 client stack for SLES10 based systems is identical to the one used on SLES11 based systems. SLES 10 systems managed by SUSE Manager will have the ZENworks Managemen Daemon (ZMD) and the rug command line tool removed.
Salt is not available for SLES 10.
SUSE Manager 3 Server can work with version 2.1 of SUSE Manager Proxy.
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:
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 Server.
dnf-plugin-spacewalk
system.listUngroupedSystems API call
org.isErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
org.isOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
org.setErrataEmailNotifsForOrg
org.setOrgConfigManagedByOrgAdmin
system.getOsaPing
system.sendOsaPing
If-Modified-Since header support
spacecmd enhancements:
softwarechannel_errata
configchannel_sync
softwarechannel_sync
softwarechannel_removesyncschedule
spacewalk-clone-by-date enhancements:
spacewalk-reports additions:
config-files
config-files-latest
scap-scan report
aarch64 support
activationkey.clone
configchannel.deployAllSystems
kickstart.listKickstartableTreeChannels
kickstart.profile.getAvailableRepositories
kickstart.profile.getRepositories
kickstart.profile.getVirtualizationType
kickstart.profile.setRepositories
kickstart.profile.setVirtualizationType
system.unentitle
user.setErrataNotifications
proxy.createMonitoringScout
satellite.isMonitoringEnabled
satellite.isMonitoringEnabledBySystemId
actionchain.addConfigurationDeployment
actionchain.addPackageInstall
actionchain.addPackageRemoval
actionchain.addPackageUpgrade
actionchain.addPackageVerify
actionchain.addScriptRun
actionchain.addSystemReboot
actionchain.createChain
actionchain.deleteChain
actionchain.listChainActions
actionchain.listChains
actionchain.removeAction
actionchain.renameChain
actionchain.scheduleChain
channel.software.syncRepo
kickstart.profile.software.getSoftwareDetails
kickstart.profile.software.setSoftwareDetails
systemgroup.listSystemsMinimal
system.listSystemEvents
system.provisioning.snapshot.rollbackToSnapshot
system.provisioning.snapshot.rollbackToTag
system.scheduleCertificateUpdate
system.schedulePackageInstall
user.external.createExternalGroupToRoleMap
user.external.createExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
user.external.deleteExternalGroupToRoleMap
user.external.deleteExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
user.external.getDefaultOrg
user.external.getExternalGroupToRoleMap
user.external.getExternalGroupToSystemGroupMap
user.external.getKeepTemporaryRoles
user.external.getUseOrgUnit
user.external.listExternalGroupToRoleMaps
user.external.listExternalGroupToSystemGroupMaps
user.external.setDefaultOrg
user.external.setExternalGroupRoles
user.external.setExternalGroupSystemGroups
user.external.setKeepTemporaryRoles
user.external.setUseOrgUnit
user.getCreateDefaultSystemGroup
user.setCreateDefaultSystemGroup
user.setReadOnly
In case of encountering a bug please report it through your support contact.
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