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By: Sören Schmidt

November 10, 2025 1:06 pm

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saptune 3.2.1 – cloudy, cloudy

Last week the maintenance update saptune 3.2.1 has been released for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 In a few days: SUSE Linux […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 25, 2025 11:03 am

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saptune 3.2 has been released!

Last Friday saptune 3.2 appeared in the repositories of: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 15 SP6 […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

April 10, 2025 3:42 pm

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saptune 3.1.5 again – Care for some PIE?

You may have noticed, that again 3.1.5 appeared in the repositories for SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP3-6. 12 SP5: 3.1.5-4.39.2 15 SP3: 3.1.5-150100.8.51.2 15 SP4: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2 15 SP5: 3.1.5-150400.15.22.2 15 […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

June 29, 2023 5:14 pm

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It’s THE time: SUSE doc survey 2023 ‘call to action’

You might already have noticed: I never tire to emphasize that documentation is an essential part of any product. This is especially true for enterprise software which covers many use cases. Most software solutions only become usable thanks to detailed documentation. We’ve got direct feedback from you, our customers and partners, how much you […]

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By: Sebastian Martinez

May 10, 2023 1:12 pm

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Solving the patching paradox challenge: How important is it to enforce a security policy in a SAP environment

A secure SAP platform can't be understood without a patched and updated SAP environment. Vulnerabilities pose a significant risk to an organization's operations, and patching is crucial to maintain system security and stability, so patching and updating software is always a top priority. However, the reality of patching complex systems like SAP differs from patching […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

October 11, 2022 4:42 pm

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SAP HANA Cluster – automated OS patching with SUSE Manager and Salt states

The following article has been contributed by Bo Jin, Sales Engineer at SUSE and Linux Consultant.     Challenge and motivation SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications is not just a great product for running SAP workloads. SUSE also provides best practice guides for building up reliable SAP HANA SR high availability […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

October 5, 2022 8:51 pm

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SUSE documentation survey—share YOUR feedback!

Every year in late summer—or early autumn—the SUSE documentation team conducts a global survey to gather concrete feedback from our technical users at customers, partners and SUSE about what the current documentation might lack, and how we can improve our documentation services.  For the very first time, and for a limited time […]

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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

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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