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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-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:
You can stay up-to-date regarding information about SUSE Manager and SUSE products:
SUSE Manager 3.1 Server is an extension for SLES 12 SP3 for x86-64 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 3.1 Server 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 or s390x system to install SUSE Manager 3.1 Server.
When you install and register SLES 12 SP3, SUSE Manager 3.1 Server will show up in the list of available extensions.
You'll need a valid SUSE Manager 3.1 Server registration code to access this extension.
You can update from SUSE Manager 3.0 Server to SUSE Manager 3.1 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 3.0 Server to SLES 12 SP2 first, followed by an update to SUSE Manager 3.1 Server.
The one-step approach migrates the SUSE Manager 3.0 Server to SUSE Manager 3.1 Server together with the service pack migration of the base system from SLES 12 SP1 to SLES 12 SP2.
Note: SUSE Manager 3.0 Server is not yet enabled for SLES 12 SP3. The respective update will be released in October 2017.
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 3.1 Server.
If you have the need to migrate from RHN Satellite to SUSE Manager 3.1 Server, please get in contact with a SUSE sales engineer or a SUSE consultant before starting the migration.
A new version of the PostgreSQL database is available in SLES 12 SP2 and can be used for SUSE Manager 3.1 Server.
New installations of SUSE Manager 3.1 Server based on SLES 12 SP3 will automatically pick up this version.
Note: SUSE Manager 3.1 Server must NOT be migrated to SLES 12 SP3 before migrating PostgreSQL to version 9.6.
The migration needs PostgreSQL 9.4 and 9.6 installed in parallel and PostgreSQL 9.4 is only available in SLES 12 SP2
You should have an up-to-date database backup before attempting the migration.
Existing installations of SUSE Manager 3.1 Server will need to run
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/pg-migrate.sh
to migrate from PostgreSQL 9.4 to PostgreSQL 9.6
Your SUSE Manager Server installation will not be accessible during the migration.
Migration will create a copy of the database under /var/lib/pgsql and thus needs sufficient disk
space to hold two copies (9.4 and 9.6) of the database.
Since it does a full copy of the database, it also needs considerable time depending on the size of the database and the IO speed of the storage.
If your system is scarce on disk space you can do an fast, in-place migration by running
/usr/lib/susemanager/bin/pg-migrate.sh fast
The fast migration usually only takes minutes and no additional disk space. However, in case of failure you need to restore the database from a backup.
This wiki page contains additional information about the migration.
SUSE Manager 3.1 is now based on SLES 12 SP3.
If you already have a SUSE Manager 3.1 Server or Proxy deployed, you can now initiate a service pack migration as outlined in the SLES documentation.
Please migrate to PostgreSQL 9.6 as outlined above before starting the service pack migration.
If you deploy a SUSE Manager 3.1 Server or Proxy anew, please start with SLES 12 SP3 as the base operating system.
Release notes and documentation have been adapted to reflect this.
This update brings an important change in semantics when changing channel assignments on minions.
In the past, channel assignment changes were executed immediately, without respecting config change time slots. Effectively doing a 'change of client configuration outside of a maintenance window'.
This is fixed with 3.1.2 by delaying state application until
A respective web UI information is also shown for the client.
This update brings the initial integration of SUSE Manager with the SUSE CaaS Platform
You can now search containers running on the SUSE CaaS Platform for
The SUSE CaaS Platform / Kubernetes infrastructure data can also be
visualized via the Systems > Visualization page.
Inspection of containers build by SUSE Manager was already part of the 3.1 release.
Now you can also import and inspect any 'foreign' container image available in the configured container registry.
This feature is currently limited to SLES-based containers. The
container needs to have Python installed.
Bugfix release
The SUSE Patch Finder is a simple online service to view released patches.
spacecmd:
spacewalk-backend:
supportutils-plugin-salt:
The following security issue has been fixed:
Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed:
salt-netapi-client:
smdba:
spacecmd:
spacewalk:
spacewalk-backend:
spacewalk-branding:
spacewalk-config:
spacewalk-doc-indexes:
spacewalk-java:
arch is set to NULL. (bsc#1045575)
spacewalk-web:
supportutils-plugin-salt:
susemanager:
susemanager-docs_en:
susemanager-schema:
susemanager-sls:
susemanager-sync-data:
virtual-host-gatherer:
python-websocket-client:
jabberd:
osad:
salt-netapi-client:
smdba:
spacecmd:
spacewalk-backend:
spacewalk-branding:
spacewalk-certs-tools:
spacewalk-java:
spacewalk-search:
spacewalk-utils:
spacewalk-web:
susemanager:
susemanager-docs_en:
susemanager-schema:
susemanager-sync-data:
SUSE Manager 3.1 is based on SLES 12 SP2 as its base operating system.
SUSE Manager 3.1 Server can work with version 3.0 of SUSE Manager Proxy.
When upgrading, upgrade the server first, followed by proxies. See the advanced topics manual for detailed upgrade instructions.
SUSE Manager 3.1 Server is based on Spacewalk 2.6 with many new features added by SUSE.
You can now enable Salt minions to act as container build hosts.
Manage and audit your container images by creating image stores, define image profiles and build images.
For more information see 'Building Containers' in the reference manual.
The page header has been improved to dramatically reduce the space wasted, giving more visibility to the actual page content.
The horizontal navigation items have been moved from the page header to the left navigation plane. See 'Navigation' in the reference manual.
Action buttons, historically placed at the end of lists, have been moved to the top and will stay visible even if the list is scrolled down.
A shortcut to scroll up to the top of the page has been added to the lower right corner of the UI.
You can now visualize your systems infrastructure. This feature allows you to search, filter and partition systems by name, base channel, check-in date, etc.
The initial release focusses on data from the SUSE Manager database.
Future improvements will enrich this with data from external systems, like monitoring systems or virtualization hosts.
SUSE Manager 3.1 Server provides many scalability enhancements over SUSE Manager 3.0 Server. Some operations have seen a ten-fold speed improvement over previous releases.
We will continue to invest into this area in further maintenance updates.
If a newly added child channel provides a SUSE product (like a SLES module or extension), this product is automatically installed.
Salt has been upgraded to the 2016.11.4 release. This represents the 'latest & greatest' release from upstream at time of 'code freeze' for SUSE Manager 3.1.
We do intend to upgrade Salt regularly to more recent versions.
The system set manager (SSM) now supports minions. You can as well add or remove a minion from the current set.
The System Set Manager Overview page has an 'Apply Highstate' button now.
The 'bootstrap' script by default installs a Salt minion now.
The --salt option is deprecated.
Use --traditional to install a traditional (non-Salt) client.
You can now work with OpenSCAP and Salt minions. To begin using OpenSCAP with Salt minions you can follow the traditional setup guide
This feature does not yet work for minions attached via salt-ssh.
jabberd now uses sqlite in place of the berkeley db database to
improve stability and performance. sqlite is the preferred database
option for jabberd.
Fresh installations of SUSE Manager 3.1 Server will use sqlite by
default.
Existing installation need to manually switch to this database as follows
# systemctl stop jabberd
# spacewalk-setup-jabberd
# systemctl start jabberd
Notice that the sqlite variant of the jabberd database does not get re-created automatically.
The workaround for corruptions of the old database - regular removal - does not apply anymore.
In case you erroneously deleted the sqlite database, jabberd will not be able to re-create it.
You need to run
/usr/share/spacewalk/setup/jabberd/create_sqlite3_database
to create the database schema and restart jabberd.
Salt formulas can be integrated with the Manager UI. A sample Formula with Form to configure locale-related settings (timezone/locale/keyboard) is included.
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 3.1 Server.
system.listSuggestedReboot
actionchain.addErrataUpdate
packages.listSourcePackages
packages.removeSourcePackage
system.scheduleLabelScriptRun
system.schedulePackageInstallByNevra
system.schedulePackageRemoveByNevra
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.
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.
Note that SLES 10 has already reached its end-of-life date and engineering only provides 'best effort' support.
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 3.1.
These Release Notes are available online. Further information about SUSE Manager is available in the Wiki
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