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By: Sören Schmidt

December 14, 2023 4:46 pm

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saptune 3.1.1 – Do I Need to Update?

This week an update of saptune has reached the repositories and the immanent question is: Do I have to update to 3.1.1? As you know, the general answer for that kind of question is always "yes", but lets have a closer look. An increment at the third part of the version number […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

October 2, 2023 11:03 am

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saptune 3.1 is out

Last week saptune 3.1 was made available in all official repositories for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (saptune-3.1.0-4.15.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.[…]

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By: Sören Schmidt

September 1, 2023 12:33 pm

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saptune 3.1 on the Horizon

In a few weeks saptune 3.1 will reach the public repositories of SLES for SAP Applications. Time to talk about the changes and new features. As always saptune 3.1 will be released for all Service Packs still in support, namely: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 12, 2022 7:17 am

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Help! Saptune says, my system is degraded!

Recently we got again questions about the system state in the output of saptune status, so it's time to talk about it. If everything is fine, you should get an output like this: # saptune status ... system state: running ... But, if not, then you will get: # saptune status ... system state: degraded ... A degraded system […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

March 22, 2022 1:46 pm

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The Treasure Hunting goes on: “Collecting saptune Data with Prometheus”

Three weeks ago my colleague Bernd Schubert published a blog post about Discover the hidden treasure. This one is sort of a follow-up and describes, how to use the textfile.collector to retrieve data from saptune. I recommend to read his blog post first, because I'll not explain everything in all details. "Wait!", […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 3, 2020 1:12 pm

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sapconf versus saptune – again

After the blog post about 'sapconf 5' a few hours ago, I was asked by various people: Shall we use 'sapconf 5' instead of 'saptune 2'? Before rumors or confusion spread, let me clarify. In short: If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server' only 'sapconf' is available. If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

July 22, 2019 3:20 pm

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A new saptune is here!

A few weeks ago I announced the new saptune version 2: A new saptune is knocking on your door The time of waiting is over! If you now run a zypper search -s saptune, you will find the saptune version 2 in the repositories of "SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP2-4/15/15 SP1". Because we […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

July 22, 2019 3:19 pm

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saptune – a deep dive

Saptune version 2 has been released a few days ago and as promised, I start my technical blog post series. Over the next few weeks I will add the links to the articles here. Let me answer the most important questions you might have first: What shall I do? Update now or wait? To answer […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

June 25, 2019 8:02 am

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sapconf versus saptune – in more detail

Last year I published a small post to compare sapconf and saptune:  sapconf versus saptune It would seem that there is still some confusion about it, so let me go a little bit deeper into the rabbit hole today. What is the difference between both? If you are running "SUSE Linux Enterprise Server" […]

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