Contents
Best Practices
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Managing Your Subscriptions
- 3 Expanded Support
- 4 Salt Formulas and SUSE Manager
- 5 Configuration Management with Salt
- 6 Salt Minion Scalability
- 7 Activation Key Management
- 8 Contact Methods
- 9 Advanced Patch Lifecycle Management
- 10 Live Patching with SUSE Manager
- 11 SUSE Manager Server Migration
- 12 Client Migration
- 13 PostgreSQL Database Migration
- 14 Backup and Restore
- 15 Authentication Methods
- 16 Using a Custom SSL Certificate
- 17 Troubleshooting
- 18 Additional Resources
- 19 A SUSE Manager 2.1 and 3.2 Product Comparison
- A GNU Licenses
- 20 GNU Free Documentation License
9 Advanced Patch Lifecycle Management
Keeping systems patched and secure remains one of the greatest ongoing challenges that you will face as an administrator. Both proprietary and open-source companies are constantly working to provide updates which fix flaws discovered within their software products.
For the official Best Practice Guide on “Advanced Patch Lifecycle Management” , see https://www.suse.com/documentation/suse-best-practices/susemanager/data/susemanager.html.