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Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4

A Documentation Updates

This chapter lists content changes for this document.

This manual was updated on the following dates:

A.1 October 2018 (Documentation Maintenance Update for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3)

General Changes to the Documentation
  • Improved consistency of Docker terminology throughout the documentation. This includes renaming a guide to Docker Open Source Engine Guide.

A.2 September 2017 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3)

General

A.3 November 2016 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2)

General
  • The e-mail address for documentation feedback has changed to doc-team@suse.com.

  • The documentation for Docker Open Source Engine has been enhanced and renamed to Docker Guide.

Chapter 2, System Monitoring Utilities
Chapter 3, Analyzing and Managing System Log Files
  • Removed references to faillog, which is no longer shipped with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Chapter 4, SystemTap—Filtering and Analyzing System Data
Bugfixes

A.4 March 2016 (Documentation Maintenance Update for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1)

A.5 December 2015 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1)

General
  • SMT Guide is now part of the documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

  • Add-ons provided by SUSE have been renamed as modules and extensions. The manuals have been updated to reflect this change.

  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

  • The registration service has been changed from Novell Customer Center to SUSE Customer Center.

  • In YaST, you will now reach Network Settings via the System group. Network Devices is gone (https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867809).

Chapter 2, System Monitoring Utilities
Chapter 6, Hardware-Based Performance Monitoring with Perf
  • Added Perf chapter, including introductory information about Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) (Fate #315868).

Chapter 19, Precision Time Protocol
  • Added PTP chapter (Fate #316795).

Bugfixes

A.6 February 2015 (Documentation Maintenance Update)

Bugfixes

A.7 October 2014 (Initial Release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12)

General
  • Removed all KDE documentation and references because KDE is no longer shipped.

  • Removed all references to SuSEconfig, which is no longer supported (Fate #100011).

  • Move from System V init to systemd (Fate #310421). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • YaST Runlevel Editor has changed to Services Manager (Fate #312568). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • Removed all references to ISDN support, as ISDN support has been removed (Fate #314594).

  • Removed all references to the YaST DSL module as it is no longer shipped (Fate #316264).

  • Removed all references to the YaST Modem module as it is no longer shipped (Fate #316264).

  • Btrfs has become the default file system for the root partition (Fate #315901). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The dmesg now provides human-readable time stamps in ctime()-like format (Fate #316056). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • syslog and syslog-ng have been replaced by rsyslog (Fate #316175). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • MariaDB is now shipped as the relational database instead of MySQL (Fate #313595). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • SUSE-related products are no longer available from http://download.novell.com but from http://download.suse.com. Adjusted links accordingly.

  • Novell Customer Center has been replaced with SUSE Customer Center. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • /var/run is mounted as tmpfs (Fate #303793). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The following architectures are no longer supported: IA64 and x86. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • The traditional method for setting up the network with ifconfig has been replaced by wicked. Updated affected parts of the documentation.

  • A lot of networking commands are deprecated and have been replaced by newer commands (usually ip). Updated affected parts of the documentation.

    arp: ip neighbor
    ifconfig: ip addr, ip link
    iptunnel: ip tunnel
    iwconfig: iw
    nameif: ip link, ifrename
    netstat: ss, ip route, ip -s link, ip maddr
    route: ip route
  • Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on technical feedback.

Chapter 2, System Monitoring Utilities
Chapter 4, SystemTap—Filtering and Analyzing System Data

Added a link to the example scripts Web page to Section 4.1.1, “SystemTap Scripts”.

Chapter 7, OProfile—System-Wide Profiler

Corrected statements on the effects of sampling rates in Section 7.4.2, “Getting Event Configurations”.

Chapter 10, Automatic Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Balancing

New chapter.

Chapter 13, Tuning the Task Scheduler
Chapter 14, Tuning the Memory Management Subsystem

Added detailed descriptions on tunable parameters to Section 14.3.2, “Writeback Parameters”.

Chapter 17, Kexec and Kdump
Obsolete Content
  • Chapter Monitoring with Nagios has been removed from Part II, “System Monitoring” (Fate #316136), because Nagios is no longer shipped on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

  • Chapter Perf mon2—Hardware-Based Performance Monitoring has been removed from Part III, “Kernel Monitoring”, because perfmon2 is no longer shipped on SUSE Linux Enterprise 12.

Bugfixes