Supported SLE Micro Features

The operating system you run on a client is supported by the organization that supplies the operating system. SLE Micro is supported by SUSE.

SLE Micro is only supported as regular minion (default contact method) for the time being. We are working on managing it as Salt SSH client (salt-ssh contact method), too.

The icons in this table indicate:

  • the feature is available

  • the feature is not available

  • the feature is under consideration, and may or may not be made available at a later date

Table 1. Supported Features on SLE Micro Operating Systems
Feature SLE Micro

Client

Operating system packages

Registration

Install packages

Apply patches (requires CVE ID)

Remote commands

System package states

System custom states

Group custom states

Organization custom states

System set manager (SSM)

Product migration

Basic Virtual Guest Management

Advanced Virtual Guest Management

Virtual Guest Installation (Kickstart), as Host OS

Virtual Guest Installation (image template), as Host OS

System deployment (PXE/Kickstart)

System redeployment (Kickstart)

Contact methods

ZeroMQ

Works with Uyuni Proxy

Action chains

Staging (pre-download of packages)

Duplicate package reporting

CVE auditing (requires CVE ID)

SCAP auditing

Package verification

Package locking

System locking

Maintenance Windows

System snapshot

Configuration file management

Snapshots and profiles

Profiles supported, Sync not supported

Power management

Monitoring server

Monitored clients

Docker buildhost

Build Docker image with OS

Kiwi buildhost

Build Kiwi image with OS

Recurring Actions

AppStreams

N/A

Yomi

Virtual Guest Management:

In this table, virtual guest management is split into basic and advanced.

Basic virtual guest management includes listing VMs, slow refresh, VM lifecycle actions (start, stop, resume, pause), and modifying VM vCPU and Memory.

Advanced virtual guest management includes all features of Basic virtual guest management plus fast refresh, VM lifecycle actions (delete, reset, power off), modifying VM disk, network, graphical display, and graphical display configuration.

On SLE Micro, only the Node exporter and the Blackbox exporter are available.