General Requirements

Before you begin installation, ensure that you have:

  • Current SUSE Customer Center organization credentials

  • Access to installation media

  • Environment meets the hardware and networking requirements

  • Any required SSL certificates for your environment

This section contains more information on each of these requirements.

For a complete list of supported clients and features, see Supported Clients and Features.

SUSE Manager 4.3 is based on SLES 15 SP4 as the host operating system. SUSE Manager comes with a maintenance lifecycle of two years. For more information, see https://www.suse.com/lifecycle/.

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) for 15 cannot be added to SUSE Manager. It is also not possible to use SLES for SAP as a base for SUSE Manager to increase the lifecycle of the underlying operating system.

1. Obtain Your SUSE Customer Center Credentials

Create an account with SUSE Customer Center before installation of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Manager.

Procedure: Obtaining Your SCC Organization Credentials

  1. Navigate to https://scc.suse.com/login in your Web browser.

  2. Log in to your SCC account, or follow the prompts to create a new account.

  3. If you have not yet done so, click Connect to an Organization and type or search for your organization.

  4. Click Manage my Organizations and select your organization from the list by clicking on the organization name.

  5. Click the Organization tab, and then select the Organization Credentials tab.

  6. Record your login information for use during SUSE Manager setup.

Depending on your organization’s setup, you might also need to activate your subscription, using the Activate Subscriptions menu.

For more information about using SCC, see https://scc.suse.com/docs/help.

2. Unified Installer

SUSE Manager Server and Proxy are installed with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Unified Installer.

You only require a valid registration code for SUSE Manager, for example from a "SUSE Manager Lifecycle Management+" subscription. For more information, see SUSE Terms and Conditions at https://www.suse.com/products/terms_and_conditions.pdf. You do not require a separate code for SLES 15 SP4.

If not already done, download the SUSE Linux Enterprise Unified Installer from https://download.suse.com.

Direct link to SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4, required to install SUSE Manager https://www.suse.com/download/suse-manager.

For a later version or a different architecture, such as IBM Z, select the respective item. With the Unified Installer you can install many SLE-based base products such as SLES, SLES for SAP Applications, or SUSE Manager.

3. Supported Browsers for the SUSE Manager Web UI

In order to use the Web UI to manage your SUSE Manager environment, you will need to ensure you are running an up to date web browser.

SUSE Manager is supported on:

  • Latest Firefox browser shipped with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

  • Latest Chrome browser on all operating systems

  • Latest Edge browser shipped with Windows

Windows Internet Explorer is not supported. The SUSE Manager Web UI will not render correctly under Windows Internet Explorer.

4. SSL Certificates

SUSE Manager uses SSL certificates to ensure that clients are registered to the correct server. By default, SUSE Manager uses a self-signed certificate. If you have certificates signed by a third-party CA, you can import them to your SUSE Manager installation.