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:
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clients running this operating system are supported by SUSE
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clients running this operating system are not supported by SUSE
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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. |
Operating System | Architecture | Traditional Clients | Salt Clients |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 |
x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 |
x86-64, ppc64le, IBM Z, ARM |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 |
x86, x86-64, Itanium, ppc64, IBM Z |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 |
x86-64, ppc64le |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12 |
x86-64, ppc64le |
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openSUSE Leap 15 |
x86-64 |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 8 |
x86-64 |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 7 |
x86-64 |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ES 6 |
x86, x86-64 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 |
x86-64 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 |
x86-64 |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 |
x86, x86-64 |
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Oracle Linux 8 |
x86-64 |
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Oracle Linux 7 |
x86-64 |
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Oracle Linux 6 |
x86, x86-64 |
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CentOS 8 |
x86-64 |
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CentOS 7 |
x86-64 |
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CentOS 6 |
x86, x86-64 |
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Ubuntu 20.04 |
x86-64 |
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Ubuntu 18.04 |
x86-64 |
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Ubuntu 16.04 |
x86-64 |
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Debian 10 |
x86-64 |
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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:
Tool Name | Description | Supported? |
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Add channels not provided by SUSE Customer Center |
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Change the hostname of the SUSE Manager Server |
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Clone channels by a specific date |
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Set up ISS master and slave organization mappings |
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Manage channel lifecycles |
The spacewalk-utils-extras
package in SUSE Manager 4.1 and later has limited support by SUSE.