SUSE Manager Reviews & Insights

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.

I think anybody managing more than a handful of SUSE products should have a look at SUSE Manager. Once you get everything set up, it helps you from bootstrapping to configuring to licensing, keeping your configuration consistent over your landscape, patching, upgrading,... It's a one stop shop for everything you might want to do as a system admin when you have to manage SUSE products

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.

It is great for medium to large environments needing standards. For small companies with only a small number of servers, you can also use the open source components used like cobbler, salt, etc.

Used mainly to maintain a bunch of SUSE for SAP machines (physical and virtual) along with a few virtual Red Hat systems. Eases the deployment of security patches as soon as they become available and helps with periodical updates.

SUSE Manager allows to manage the update cycle centralizing all information in a convenient way. It's an essential tool when dealing with more than 10 to 20 systems. In environments with less than 20 systems the resources consumed by SUSE Manager maybe are not worth, against setting up a more simple tool. Anyway it gives a good overview of all systems.

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.

It's a very convenient way of tracking, monitoring, and auditing reports on our databases. Reduces runtime, complexity to manage IT operations. Meets all security and compliance standards. Great support.

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.

We use a DTAP for our SAP environment. For approving and distributing updates and patches through this DTAP environment, SUSE Manager is well suited. I'm not sue if SUSE Manager is the right product for distributing self made packages.

We use SUSE Manager to bootstrap new systems, automate the configuration of all Linux OS systems in the environment (SLES, OEL, RHEL), completely automate the repository updates to fixed points by date or project and to run commands on groups of servers via Salt. All these tasks work equally well in the various clouds and on premise.

SUSE Manager is particularly well suited for a mixed Linux OS environment or even with multiple organizations. You can create unlimited groups and or channels to organize repositories without adding storage requirements.

SUSE Manager is the central management system for our SLES infrastructure. We use it to initially bootstrap new systems, to have a complete overview of our landscape, to automate configuration roll out, to manage the lifecycle of our systems, to make sure all critical patches are gradually rolled out over the landscape, to audit our systems using openscap, to make sure all systems have exactly the same baseline (regarding software selections AND software versions). All in all, it is the central system, the first go-to when managing our SLES infrastructure.

In our specific use case, SUSE Manager is extremely useful. We're having a large landscape that is divided into intake, development, quality and production with a couple of different SUSE flavours that need to be automatically rolled out, configured, patched and maintained, everything from up to date repositories that are cloned on a daily basis straight from SUSE.

SUSE Manager handles the patching/updating of the major Linux OSes to a specific level based on a fixed date very well. This allows us to fully test through each of our non-production environments before moving on to the next, without stopping the updates of the local repository.

Overall my experience with SUSE Manager has been outstanding and phenomenal. Over the last 2 years, I have been able to create a content lifecycle for upgrading our sales apps environments. Provides a top-tier support team that is very intuitive and 24/7 proactive.

I love that SUSE Manager is intuitive with compliance management. Reduces runtime. Amazing with data warehouse and data visualizations.

Convenience to manage different servers. Excellent with data warehousing. Brilliant to auto-discover network. Efficient with workflow management.

Brilliant with managing different servers. Reliable with third-party integration. Terrific with data warehousing. Efficient with asset tracking.