Recommended update for sles-manuals_en

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for sles-manuals_en
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2016:0680-1
Rating: low
References: #753809 #783346 #866936 #867809 #870132 #879486 #880918 #897313 #907145 #910602 #914076 #917432 #918217 #918655 #922976 #926337 #926521 #926951 #927237 #927506 #928074 #928158 #928792 #929918 #930267 #930424 #936785 #937511 #938152 #938671 #939197 #939519 #939529 #941307 #942772 #943298 #944384 #947484 #947941 #947949 #947952 #948174 #948178 #948954 #949395 #951321 #951421 #951783 #952469 #954250 #956054 #956060
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1

  • An update that has 52 recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:


    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 manuals have been updated. The
    following sections got improved:

    General
    - Book "Subscription Management Tool for SLES 12 SP1" is now part of the
    documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
    - Add-ons provided by SUSE have been renamed to modules and extensions.
    The manuals have been updated to reflect this change.
    - Numerous small fixes and additions to the documentation, based on
    technical feedback.
    - The registration service has been changed from Novell Customer Center to
    SUSE Customer Center.
    - In YaST, you will now reach Network Settings via the System group.
    Network Devices is gone (bnc#867809).

    Administration Guide
    - Chapter 3, System Recovery and Snapshot Management with Snapper
    - Chapter 5, Remote Access with VNC
    - Chapter 4, Managing Software with Command Line Tools
    - Chapter 10, journalctl: Query the systemd Journal
    - Chapter 11, The Boot Loader GRUB 2
    - Chapter 12, UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
    - Chapter 19, Basic Networking
    - Chapter 22, The Domain Name System
    - Chapter 26, Sharing File Systems with NFS
    - Section 28.1, “Available Data Synchronization Software”
    - Chapter 29, The Apache HTTP Server
    - Chapter 37, Common Problems and Their Solutions
    - Part II, System

    Deployment Guide
    - Chapter 2, Installation on AMD64 and Intel 64
    - Chapter 4, Installation on IBM z Systems
    - Chapter 6, Installation with YaST
    - Chapter 8, Installing or Removing Software
    - Chapter 9, Installing Modules, Extensions, and Third Party Add-On
    Products
    - Chapter 14, Advanced Disk Setup

    Subscription Management
    - Chapter 8, Configuring Clients to Use SMT
    - Part III, Updating and Upgrading SUSE Linux Enterprise
    - Part IV, Imaging and Creating Products

    Security and Hardening Guide
    - Section 3.14.4, SUSE Manager
    - Section 3.9.12, Filter access to /dev/mem

    Security Guide
    - Chapter 4, Authentication Server and Client
    - Chapter 8, Configuring Security Settings with YaST
    - Chapter 15, Masquerading and Firewalls
    - Chapter 30, Configuring SELinux

    Subscription Management Tool
    - Chapter 1, SMT Installation
    - Chapter 3, Mirroring Repositories on the SMT Server
    - Chapter 7, SMT Tools and Configuration Files
    - Chapter 8, Configuring Clients to Use SMT

    Storage Administration Guide
    - Chapter 1, Overview of File Systems in Linux
    - Chapter 4, LVM Configuration
    - Chapter 6, Software RAID Configuration
    - Chapter 12, iSNS for Linux
    - Chapter 15, Managing Multipath I/O for Devices

    System Analysis and Tuning Guide
    - Chapter 2, System Monitoring Utilities
    - Chapter 6, Hardware-Based Performance Monitoring with Perf
    - Chapter 18, Precision Time Protocol

    Virtualization Guide
    - Chapter 7, Supported Guests, Hosts and Features
    - Chapter 10, Basic VM Guest Management
    - Chapter 12, Managing Storage
    - Chapter 14, Configuring Virtual Machines
    - Chapter 19, Virtual Networking
    - Chapter 23, Administrative Tasks
    - Chapter 27, Setting Up a KVM VM Host Server
    - Chapter 29, Running Virtual Machines with qemu-system-ARCH

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-384=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP1-2016-384=1

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1 (noarch):
      • sles-admin_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-autoyast_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-deployment_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-gnomeuser_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-hardening_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-installquick_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-manuals_en-12.1-6.2
      • sles-security_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-storage_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-tuning_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
      • sles-virtualization_en-pdf-12.1-6.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP1 (noarch):
      • sles-virtualization_en-pdf-12.1-6.2

    References: