Recommended update for saptune

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2022:0218-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that has eight fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for saptune fixes the following issues:

  • Fix LVM slave devices not to be excluded when they are valid block devices (bsc#1194299)
  • Fix 'not compliant' state for energy_perf_bias on PowerPC systems and suppress misleading error message regarding missing 'mokutil' (bsc#1193435)
  • Remove the dependency to 'mokutil' by relying on sysfs to detect a secure boot environment (bsc#1193435)
  • Fix problem with command saptune revert all, if the saptune service was stopped between the two commands apply and revert all
  • Fix saptune service enablestart|disablestop to always perform both actions and no longer stop working, if the service is already started|stopped (bsc#1193241)
  • Fix support support for AWS x1e instances (bsc#1192029)
  • Support /etc/fstab entries with 4 instead of 6 fields and change error handling from 'panic' to error log messages (bsc#1193580)
  • Enhance documentation in man page 'saptune.8' with the entry 'configured Note' and some more descriptions of the entries from saptune service status (bsc#1192697)
  • Fix block device settings (e.g. NRREQ) for multipath devices (bsc#1193576)
  • Fix saptune verify command to report a non existing sysctl or sys parameter as 'not available on the system'. An additional warning is displayed to raise attention to typos in the parameter name.
  • Fix saptune status command to accurately report the unit state (bsc#1194334)
  • Added a hint to the man page and some additional log messages as the PowerPC systems (hardware architecture 'ppc64le') don't support files in '/sys/class/dmi'

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP4-2022-218=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP5-2022-218=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • saptune-debuginfo-3.0.2-4.10.1
    • saptune-3.0.2-4.10.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • saptune-debuginfo-3.0.2-4.10.1
    • saptune-3.0.2-4.10.1

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