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Version Revision History

  • May 2019: Beta 3 release

  • April 9th, 2019: 4.0 Beta 2 release

  • March 13th, 2019: 4.0 Beta 1 release

About SUSE Manager Proxy

SUSE Manager Proxy Server is an add-on to SUSE Manager Server providing mirroring proxy support. This allows for load distribution and improved scalability.

Operation is completely transparent. The SUSE Manager Proxy looks like a managed client to SUSE Manager Server and like a Server to the managed clients. Managed clients only talk to the Proxy Server which in turn communicates to the SUSE Manager Server.

All RPM packages that pass the Proxy Server are cached and subsequent client requests for these packages are resolved from the cache.

System Requirements

SUSE Manager Proxy Server is a 64bit application. Recommended main memory is 2GB and approx 50 GB of disk space per distribution or channel.

See the Advanced Topics manual for more details on the system requirements.

SUSE Manager Proxy distribution

SUSE Manager Proxy is distributed as a bundle of SLES 15 SP1 x86_64 with the SUSE Manager Proxy application.

Installation and Setup

Installation of SUSE Manager Proxy 4 is done via the SUSE Manager Server 4 web interface.

See the Advanced Topics manual for step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0.

Upgrade from version 3.2

Upgrading an existing SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2 system to SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 can be done by an in-place upgrade or by setting up a new system, replacing the old one.

Both approaches are described in the SUSE Manager 4.0 "Upgrade Guide", look for "Migrating SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2 to SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0"

Upgrade from version 3.1 or older

Not supported. Please re-install SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 from scratch.

SUSE Manager Server versions

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 can only work with SUSE Manager 4.0 Server.

SUSE Manager Server 4.0 can work with SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 or Proxy 3.2.

Major changes since SUSE Manager Proxy 3.2

Prometheus Monitoring

As part of the first preview of the Monitoring feature we will provide packages for the following exporters:

Both will be pre-installed on SUSE Manager Proxy as part of its self-monitoring, and they will provide hardware, operating system and HTTP proxy metrics.

Formulas update for Retail Branch Server

Formulas to setup Retail Branch Server where updated to support SLE15 SP1 environment.

Salt 2019.2.0

Salt has been upgraded to the final 2019.2.0 release.

We do intend to upgrade Salt regularly to more recent versions.

For changes in your manually created Salt states, please see the Salt 2019.2 upstream release notes.

Base system upgrade

The Base system was upgraded to SLES15 SP1. With this all code was ported to run with python3.

Providing feedback to our products

In case of encountering a bug please report it through your support contact.

Documentation and other information

http://www.suse.com/products/suse-manager/technical-information/ contains additional or updated documentation for SUSE Manager Server 4.0

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