SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12

There are no fixes involved. This document is merely to provide information on what to expect in the os-release file depending on the installed version.

Fresh installs of SLES for SAP Applications produce the following os-release syntax and products.d contents:-
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# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="12"
VERSION_ID="12"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12"
ID="sles"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12"

/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2705 Oct 14  2014 SLES.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2839 Apr 23  2015 SLES_SAP.prod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Apr  3 15:41 baseproduct -> SLES_SAP.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1598 Oct  2  2014 sle-ha.prod
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# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES_SAP"
VERSION="12-SP1"
VERSION_ID="12.1.0.1"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1"
ID="sles_sap"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles_sap:12:sp1"

/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2854 Mar 15  2017 SLES_SAP.prod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Apr  3 15:05 baseproduct -> SLES_SAP.prod

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# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES_SAP"
VERSION="12-SP2"
VERSION_ID="12.2"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2"
ID="sles_sap"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles_sap:12:sp2"

/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3080 Mar 30  2017 SLES_SAP.prod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Apr  3 13:11 baseproduct -> SLES_SAP.prod

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# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="12-SP3"
VERSION_ID="12.3"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3"
ID="sles"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles_sap:12:sp3"

/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2972 Jul 24  2017 SLES_SAP.prod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Apr  3 12:31 baseproduct -> SLES_SAP.prod

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="15"
VERSION_ID="15"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15"
ID="sles"
ID_LIKE="suse"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:15"
linux-mpxw:~ #


/etc/products.d # ls -l
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3185 May 30 05:23 SLES_SAP.prod
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   13 Oct 31 11:46 baseproduct -> SLES_SAP.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3197 May 30 05:23 sle-ha.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1892 May 30 05:23 sle-module-basesystem.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2264 May 30 05:23 sle-module-desktop-applications.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2315 May 30 05:23 sle-module-sap-applications.prod
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2351 May 30 05:23 sle-module-server-applications.prod

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This leaves us with the question 'How do we identify the 'base product' of a server?".

The correct way to do this is is by examining the contents of /etc/product.d/ directory (and look at which product file the link 'baseproduct' is pointing too).

SLES for SAP 12.2: os-release contents followed the same pattern as SLES for SAP 12.1
SLES for SAP 15: os-release contents match the original correct syntax from SLES 12 (no service pack) with CPE_NAME also correctly reflecting SLES. The contents of the products.d directory has changed with this release to reflect the new packaging/module schema.