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 on both Salt and traditional clients
the feature is not available
the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date
Traditional the feature is supported only on traditional clients
Salt the feature is supported only on Salt clients.

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