SUSE Manager

We have about 170 SUSE linux enterprise virtual machines, we were looking for an easy way to manage them (from bootstrapping to configuring, patching, upgrading to decomissioning). By hand, this would be an enormous task, so we looked for a platform that would help us. We chose SUSE Manager because it's vendor supported and is able to manage our infrastucture effectively.

• it's a timesaver
• it's easy to manage your subscriptions
• gives a complete overview of the state of your SUSE products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SAP BW/4HANA, Microsoft 365

When I started in my company, all our SUSE servers had to be installed and managed manually or by scripts. When SUSE Manager introduced, a lot of daily stuff became easier. The management of our AutoYaST-profiles and thus the automatic installation works like charm. Managing our system regarding updates and having an overview of our level of patching became very easy. Auditing systems when new messages about security leaks are coming in is also a great help for us. The possibilities with Salt to manage and distribute (configuration) files on and to our servers is another great feature to have a uniform and stable environment. All in all, our environment became easier and faster to manage. Especially setting up and managing standards for our servers helped a lot increasng our level of security. And not to forget the saving of a lot of time and the decreasing of headaches and pains in our daily business.

• saving time and resources

Kubernetes

We are using SUSE Manager as a local database configuration for all of our Linux servers and devices . This helps a ton because we were having issues compiling a list and organizing our Linux environment under one roof. We are able to easily find and manage our Linux environment such us making sure that all critical patches are gradually rolled out over the landscape, auditing our systems using openscap, ensuring that all our systems have exactly the same baseline (regarding software selections AND software versions) it is the central system, it provides us a top-tier support team that is very intuitive and 24/7 proactive. the first go-to when managing our SLES infrastructure whereas before it was pretty messy. It's easy to deploy and manage.

• content lifecycle management
• configuration management
• patching management
• Asset Management Tools

• Manages patch levels for most Linux OS by: date, group, cloud or custom channels
• Make it easy to audit our own infrastructure.
• Allows the joining of groups inside SUSE Manager to quickly access or work with servers so grouped.
• 24/7 support team.
• Automatic deployment.

Microsoft System Center and Red Hat Satellite

We have a quite large Linux environment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (for SAP Applications), Red Hat, Centos and other distributions. It is hard to create an update plan in a DTAP environment. SUSE Manager helps us a lot in our Life Cycle management for Linux distributions. It is a product from SUSE, but we can also manage our Red Hat, CentOS and Debian distributions. Currently there are a lot of Security Vulnerabilities which need to be addressed. Notifications come in form of CVE's which can also be checked in SUSE Manager and immediately be patched for the involved Servers.

• Life Cycle Management
• Security compliance management

• Timesaving by managing patches and Security vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays, IBM AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

<ul><li>Automate processes, run scripts and control software updates on our 250+ Linux OS servers, including SUSE, OEL, and RHEL </li><li> Create operational efficiencies and cost management (the two biggest reasons we purchased SUSE Manager originally) </li><li> Security team also uses SUSE Manager to audit our patch levels and create vulnerability reports</li></ul>

• Salt Stack lite included
• Proxy servers

• Reduced administrative effort by replacing four other products.
• Reduced time and resources to implement with Salt

Salt Open Source Automation Engine