Supported Clients and Features

SUSE Manager is compatible with a range of client technologies. You can install traditional or Salt clients, running SUSE Linux Enterprise or another Linux operating system, with a range of hardware options.

This section contains summary of supported client systems. For a detailed list of features available on each client, see the following pages.

This version of SUSE Manager is compatible with Salt and traditional clients (on some operating systems). SUSE will deprecate traditional clients in the next SUSE Manager 4.3 release.

The release that follows SUSE Manager 4.3 will not support traditional clients and is planned for 2023.

We encourage all new deployments to use Salt clients exclusively, and to migrate existing traditional clients to Salt.

Supported Client Systems

Supported operating systems for traditional and Salt clients are listed in this table.

The icons in this table indicate:

  • clients running this operating system are supported by SUSE

  • clients running this operating system are not supported by SUSE

  • clients are under consideration, and may or may not be supported at a later date.

Client operating system versions and SP levels must be under general support (normal or LTSS) to be supported with SUSE Manager. For details on supported product versions, see https://www.suse.com/lifecycle.

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system.
Table 1. Supported Client Systems
Operating System Architecture Traditional Clients Salt Clients

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15

x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM

SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

x86, x86-64, Itanium, ppc64, IBM Z

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

x86-64, ppc64le

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12

x86-64, ppc64le

openSUSE Leap 15

x86-64

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 8

x86-64

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 7

x86-64

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 6

x86, x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

x86, x86-64

Oracle Linux 8

x86-64

Oracle Linux 7

x86-64

Oracle Linux 6

x86, x86-64

CentOS 8

x86-64

CentOS 7

x86-64

CentOS 6

x86, x86-64

Ubuntu 20.04

x86-64

Ubuntu 18.04

x86-64

Ubuntu 16.04

x86-64

Debian 10

x86-64

Debian 9

x86-64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Oracle Linux 6, CentOS 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server-ES 6, and Ubuntu 16.04 are end-of-life upstream and no longer supported by SUSE as client operating systems. SUSE Manager Client Tools for these operating systems are still provided from SCC for convenience.

Supported Tools Packages

The spacewalk-utils and spacewalk-utils-extras packages can provide additional services and features. The spacewalk-utils package in SUSE Manager 4.1 and later is fully supported by SUSE, and contains these tools:

Table 2. Spacewalk Utilities
Tool Name Description Supported?

spacewalk-common-channels

Add channels not provided by SUSE Customer Center

spacewalk-hostname-rename

Change the hostname of the SUSE Manager Server

spacewalk-clone-by-date

Clone channels by a specific date

spacewalk-sync-setup

Set up ISS master and slave organization mappings

spacewalk-manage-channel-lifecycle

Manage channel lifecycles

The spacewalk-utils-extras package in SUSE Manager 4.1 and later has limited support by SUSE.