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What is SUSE Manager?

True open source infrastructure management solution designed to simplify and secure your entire mixed Linux environment — at the core, on the edge or in the cloud(s). Maintain infrastructure security & compliance at any scale — from 10 to 1 million clients — from a single console. Manual or inconsistent patch management is a leading cause of cyber-attacks. SUSE Manager helps to secure your entire mixed Linux environments – from automated patch management to centralized monitoring and management. Automate infrastructure security & compliance Secure your infrastructure with automated patch and configuration management including auto-remediation. Validate your system security against SCAP protocols and perform audit scans on client systems through openSCAP. Ensure system compliance with internal and external requirements. Centralized control and reporting at any scale Scale out your infrastructure and centralize reporting for up to 1 million Linux clients using SUSE Manager’s Hub architecture. Use Prometheus to monitor real-time data and Grafana for visual dashboards. Simplify and automate deployment with the new rearchitected proxy for resource constrained environments. Manage any Linux, anywhere One console to manage and monitor all of your Linux distros wherever thy are located. One-click automation for provisioning, patching, and configuration, which leads to faster, consistent and repeatable server employments. Easy, in-place migration for SUSE Solutions, including openSUSE to SLE, service pack migrations and major version upgrades.

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Product Description

SUSE Manager was designed to help your enterprise DevOps and IT Operations teams reduce complexity and regain control of your IT assets with a single tool to manage Linux systems across a variety of hardware architectures, hypervisors as well as container, IoT and cloud platforms. It automates Linux server and IoT device provisioning, patching and configuration for faster, consistent and repeatable server deployment helping to optimize operations and reduce costs. And with automated monitoring, tracking, auditing and reporting of your systems, VMs, and containers across your development, test and production environments, you can ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations.


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Modernize your infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, cloud technology for IaaS, and SUSE's software-defined storage.


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Christian D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Use it on an almost daily basis"
SUSE Manager – SUMA is a powerful tool for patching, software management, and overall management, on a variety of Linux distributions. It gives a v...
Marco Antonio P.
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Marco Antonio P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great management tool"
you can consolidate and save a lot time and effort to management linux enviroments, easy to use , the customer support global, work well and have ...
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Javier F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Powerfull and reliable"
I can manage a variety of Linux distributions from one tool. The API is well documented, so it is easy to scripts and automate.
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

SUSE Manager – SUMA is a powerful tool for patching, software management, and overall management, on a variety of Linux distributions. It gives a very good overview of the systems in terms of compliance, but also a granular level of software access on the individual systems. It is relatively easy to form an overview of high priority vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

The implementation was a bit comprehensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives a very good overview of the systems compliance, on a variety of Linux distributions. It is relatively easy to form an overview of high priority vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marco Antonio P.
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

you can consolidate and save a lot time and effort to management linux enviroments, easy to use , the customer support global, work well and have good functions.

The user interface is very well, friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

ist not that easy to implementing, take some time to integrate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

consolidate management and save time and money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JF
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

I can manage a variety of Linux distributions from one tool.

The API is well documented, so it is easy to scripts and automate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

The WebUI is not the most intuitive.

Developing salt states in the WebUI is not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

SUSE Manager saves us a lot of time in administrating and patching several hundred Linux servers.

Thist time is better spent with our internal customers and helping the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad Ammar S.
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Zones Cloud Specialist-Data Center Transformation
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

It's good for managing the Linux operating systems, its salt management tools support multiple flavors like RedHat, Cent OS and even Ubuntu (Debian based).

Most of the orchestration tools are limited to their specific distribution only (mostly their own). Still, the Suse's Manager can deal with a variety of distributions like suse , ubuntu etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

Doesnt supports cloud public cloud-native integrations. You have to use it as BYOL in market place. Such as in Azure you have to use the suse image from the marketplace and then have to install it in the same VPC.

Also, it would be good if it has some competitor features like well-architected reviews and security assessments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Orchestration and management of multiple distributions in a physical datcenter. Eliminating the need to access different OS and install the patches and software updates separately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Samed A.
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

With Suse manager, I can easily manage all operating systems with linux distribution. This leaves me a lot of time. It is very successful on the automation side. Our patch management works never stop. If we have a problem, the suse technical support team can produce a solution immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

This is pretty hard to write. Because Suse manager is really successful. However, as a few adjustments, the update tank can increase the filling speed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows us to handle patch management from a single screen on our servers with all Linux distributions. Buddha gives us confidence first. In this way, our patch update processes are very fast and successful. Our jobs, which we spent a long time in the past, are now completed more easily and in a short time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AREFUL I.
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Sr. IT Executive (System and Network)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

SUSE Manager is best for its following features:

1. Adjusting with all Linux Distro

2.No Platform dependency to use it.

3. Automated any patch management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

Bare metal system to be provisioned must have PXE booting enabled in the boot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use SUSE Manager to manage Azure Cloud Infrastructure. I can easily setup using command line to provision instance and deploying service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BK
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

SUSE Managers have a good choice for managing the package. I like it for managing a specific project like a web service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

I don't like SUSE Manager when installing and updating software. It's so slow in our country. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

I get standard security compliance. It's good for our infrastructure security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DF
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

Repo mirroring, config management via salt, Content Lifecycle management, container image building and scanning, security and monitoring features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

Ansible integration could be further developed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

managing large server infrastructures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mildred K.
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Oil & Energy
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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

It allows me to easily keep track of software updates, provision new systems, and monitor the health of my IT environment. This made it easy to keep track of my IT infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

One downside is that the initial setup process is a bit time-consuming. But once it is set up, it runs smoothly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solved my problem of managing and maintaining a large IT infrastructure. It saved my time and reduced the risk of errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SUSE Manager?

The Salt Stack features and the flexibility of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SUSE Manager?

The inability of the proxy servers to cache anything not cached on the main server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SUSE Manager:

Use it to manage all your Linux OS needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SUSE Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Configuration file management and stronger automation tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.