SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center 2012 - Public Beta

Product Description

The SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft System Center extends the functionality of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and utilizes the power of SUSE Manager for managing a Linux environment, allowing Windows administrators to view Linux server health information, and perform Linux patching via the SCOM console, saving time and money. The management pack was developed to interact with SUSE Manager using the SUSE Manager open application programming interface. The Windows administrator imports the management pack into SCOM, and deploys a SUSE Manager Server with the SUSE Manager Management Module on each Linux server to be managed by SCOM. Information about the patch status and health of the managed Linux servers is passed through to SCOM, where it may be viewed and acted upon by the administrator.

Key Features

Through tight integration between SUSE Manager and SCOM, the system administrator is able, through a single console, to:

• Quickly check all Linux servers for health and update status.
• View a list of all Linux servers entitled for a selected list of critical and optional updates & patches.
• Get alerts for all outdated or critical updates available for Linux servers (health threshold state).
• Schedule maintenance window to run updates on a specific Linux server or a group of Linux servers
• When combined with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support, patch RHEL servers.

Key Benefits

• Reduce cost – Leverage your investment in existing infrastructure including software, hardware and expertise.
• Save time – Linux patch management can be done from the same SCOM console rather than splitting time between two silos.
• Minimize risk – Improved efficiency in the patching and updating process translates to lower risk of failure via a missed or incorrectly applied patch.

Deployment and System Requirements

The SUSE Manager Management Pack for Microsoft Systems Center requires SUSE Manager and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 or later to be installed. The SUSE Manager Management Module is required for each Linux server to be managed. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with Expanded Support is required for managing RHEL servers. SUSE Manager server and proxy server are provided as software appliances for easy installation on physical hardware or as virtual appliances on all virtualization platforms supported with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1. SUSE Manager includes a built-in Oracle XE database, but can also leverage existing Oracle 10g or 11g databases, to store all data related to the managed Linux servers.

SUSE Manager minimum requirements:

• x86_64 server only
• Intel* Pentium* 4 or later or AMD* Opteron* or later, 2 GHz , 512 K of cache or equivalent; Intel or AMD multicore processor, 2.4 GHz recommended
• 2 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)
• 5 GB of storage for basic installation (50 GB of disk space recommended)
• 12 GB of storage for database repository
• Separate partition for storing backups

Microsoft System Center minimum requirements:

• See Microsoft System Center documentation

Product Documentation

• For product documentation, see the SUSE Manager Documentation page.