SUSE Manager helps users reduce the complexity of Linux OSes

Aug 21, 2015 03:07 GMT  ·  By

SUSE, through Meike Chabowski, had the great pleasure of announcing the release and general availability of SUSE Manager, a piece of software that eases things for Linux users, making complex tasks simple, for IBM z Systems.

SUSE Manager can now be hosted on the world's number one data and transaction engine and enterprise server, IBM z Systems, allowing users to manage all of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, including physical and virtual instances on x86_64 and IBM Power Systems platforms, as well as virtual instances on IBM z Systems.

Version 2.1 of SUSE Manager for IBM z Systems is available for download for free as an appliance image, as well as a DVD ISO image, supporting the IBM zEnterprise System z196, IBM z13, IBM zEnterprise, IBM zEnterprise EC12, IBM zEnterprise BC12, IBM zEnterprise System z114, IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper, and IBM LinuxONE Emperor IBM z Systems servers.

"But the really exciting news of today is that SUSE just recently made available SUSE Manager 2.1 for IBM z Systems, which can be hosted on IBM z Systems servers and can manage all SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in your environment," says Meike Chabowski, product marketing manager for Enterprise Linux Servers at SUSE.

Highlights of SUSE Manager

For those of you who don't know yet what SUSE Manager can do for them, we inform them that the app helps inventorying an entire Linux kernel-based operating system, including software and hardware information, installing and updating software packages on the respective OS, as well as monitoring the entire GNU/Linux system.

Additionally, SUSE Manager can provision system through software like AutoYaST and Kickstart, manage and deploy configuration files to the operating system, build groups that can be used for applying custom software packages to each machine, provision, start, stop, and configure virtual guests, as well as to efficiently distribute packages across several geographical websites.