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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

October 25, 2021 1:49 pm

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saptune 3 is here!

A few weeks ago I announced the upcoming release of saptune 3 https://www.suse.com/c/saptune-3-is-on-the-horizon/ and what it will bring. Now the time is up! Around the end of last week saptune 3.0.0 turned up (almost) in the official repositories for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

September 28, 2021 3:16 pm

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saptune 3 Is on the Horizon

For quite some time we haven't released a new version of saptune. That didn't mean that development has stopped. Far from it! The last months have been busy to finalize the upcoming version 3, which brings new features customers and partners requested. It is currently in our QA and will be available in a few […]

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By: Michael Tabron

August 4, 2021 7:09 pm

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SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP3 Update Webinar … with a bonus

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 is available, and SAP has validated it for SAP HANA systems about 30 days after it’s availability. So now you’re asking yourself, “What’s new in this version and how does it help me?”. Well, here’s how you find out. I’[…]

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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: Michael Tabron

March 23, 2020 9:14 am

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SAP on SUSE: Everything You Need to Know – Blog Take 2

And, we’re back! Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we had to postpone the webinar “SAP on SUSE: Everything You Need to Know” but we’re all set to host it on a new date. On March 31 at 11:00 am US Eastern Time / 5:00 pm CET, I will be moderating the webinar […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

November 29, 2019 3:13 pm

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Noop now named none

Lately more and more people approached me with saptune warnings regarding 'noop' being an invalid scheduler. With new Servie Packs we see a transition from non-multiqueue schedulers (noop, cfq, deadline) to multiqueue schedulers (none, mq-deadline, bfq, kyber). This transition will be finished with kernel 5.x (SLES 15 SP2). Only multiqueue schedulers will remain. Even […]

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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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