Supported SL Micro Client Features

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. SL Micro is supported by SUSE.

SL Micro is currently supported as a Salt client with the default contact method only.

The icons in this table indicate:

  • the feature is available

  • the feature is not available

  • the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date

Table 1. Supported Features on SL Micro Operating Systems
Feature SL Micro

Client

Salt

Operating system packages

Salt

Registration

Salt

Install packages

Salt

Apply patches (requires CVE ID)

Salt

Remote commands

Salt

System package states

Salt

System custom states

Salt

Group custom states

Salt

Organization custom states

Salt

System set manager (SSM)

Salt

Product migration

Salt

Basic Virtual Guest Management

Advanced Virtual Guest Management

Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS

Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS

System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)

System redeployment (Kickstart)

Contact methods

Salt: ZeroMQ

Works with SUSE Manager Proxy

Salt

Action chains

Salt

Staging (pre-download of packages)

Duplicate package reporting

Salt

CVE auditing (requires CVE ID)

Salt

SCAP auditing

Package verification

Package locking

Salt

System locking

Maintenance Windows

System snapshot

Configuration file management

Salt

Snapshots and profiles

Salt: Profiles supported, Sync not supported

Power management

Salt

Monitoring server

Monitored clients

Salt

Docker buildhost

Build Docker image with OS

Kiwi buildhost

Build Kiwi image with OS

Salt

Recurring Actions

Salt

AppStreams

N/A

Yomi

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes all features of Basic virtual guest management plus fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.

On SL Micro, only the Node exporter and the Blackbox exporter are available.