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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

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

March 8, 2021 5:57 pm

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How Open Source Makes SAP More Manageable

SAP continues to help drive the digital transformation of tens of thousands of companies of all sizes and sectors. In fact, SAP software touches nearly every aspect of how modern businesses are run. And with continued improvements to the platform, SAP is helping businesses to constantly move forward, to make them more capable, powerful, and […]

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By: Michael Tabron

March 4, 2021 3:57 pm

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Two Webinars for Two Important Aspects of SAP Deployment

We introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications nearly 11 years ago with two features that are critical for SAP infrastructures: high availability (HA) and automated deployment. Today, it is no less important to keep current business services operational and deliver new services quickly. The problem is that the increased number of HA scenarios […]

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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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