Marketing description

Rapid data center, IT infrastructure and technology advancements have created endless new opportunities for IT innovation, but have also introduced many new management challenges. SUSE Manager can help - designed to reduce complexity and regain control by enabling comprehensive management of your Linux systems, VMs and containers with a single centralized solution. It provides automated and cost-effective software, asset, patch and configuration management, as well as, system provisioning, orchestration and monitoring capabilities enabling you to easily manage your deployments across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Key selling points

• API driven automation for Linux server provisioning, configuration and patching
• Inventory hardware and software systems
• Create reports for physical, virtual machines and cloud instances, assign subscriptions and identify over- or under-utilization
• Track server changes and return to a previous version or configuration if required
• Provision and start/stop/configure virtual guests
• Collect and distribute custom software packages into manageable groups
• Centrally push software by grouping servers, easing the burden of manually managing individual servers
• Use the SUSE Manager application programming interface (API) to create custom scripts for easily automating many tasks
• Provision RPM-based applications to automatically deploy complete, integrated software stacks
• Plan maintenance windows ahead of time by scheduling updates
• Apply role-based controls so administrators have authority to manage each system
• Significantly reduce the time to patch hundreds, even thousands, of servers via real-time configuration and monitoring
• Salt-based configuration management enables fast and secure deployment of tens of thousands of systems
• Manage configurations over time to track and manage configuration drift
• Centralize configuration file management for server groups

Product features

• Reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets
  SUSE Manager enables you to manage your Linux systems, VMs and containers with a single tool across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors, and cloud platforms. Simplify management and reduce complexity with graphical visualization of your IT systems status and their relationships as well as the capability to organize your Linux servers into logical groupings. SUSE Manager also helps you regain control of your IT assets by allowing you to quickly view and identify which of your IT assets need attention.
• Ensure compliances with internal security policies and external regulations
  You can automate monitoring, tracking, auditing, and reporting of your systems, VMs and containers across your DevOps environment to ensure compliance. Easily track system compliance to current patch levels and quickly identify and remediate systems deployed in cloud and container infrastructures that are out of compliance with company policies.
• Optimize operations and reduce costs
  Enterprise DevOps and IT teams can optimize operations, reduce costs and support CI/CD, with a single tool for automated deployment of hardened OS templates (VMs or containers) to tens of thousands of servers for faster, consistent and repeatable provisioning, orchestration and configuration without compromising speed or security. Additionally, SUSE Manager makes it easy to manage and optimize usage of SUSE subscriptions, helping to ensure you aren't buying subscriptions you don't need.