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4 Reference Guide Monitoring allows an organization to install probes that can immediately detect failures and identify performance degradation before it becomes critical. Used properly, the monitoring entitlement can provide insight into the applications, services, and devices on each system. Specifically, monitoring provides: • Probes — Dozens of probes can be run against each system. These range from simple ping checks to custom remote programs designed to return valuable data. • Notification — Alerts can be sent to email and pager addresses with contact methods identified by you when a probe changes state. Each probe notification can be sent to a different method, or address. • Central Status — The results of all probes are summarized in a single Probe Status page, with the systems affected broken down by state. • Reporting — By selecting a probe and identifying the particular metric and a range of time, you can generate graphs and event logs depicting precisely how the probe has performed. This can be instrumental in predicting and preventing costly system failures. • Probe Suites — Groups of probes may be assigned to a system or set of systems at once rather than individually. This allows administrators to be certain that similar systems are monitored in the same way and saves time configuring individual probes. • Notification Filters — Probe notifications may be redirected to another recipient, halted, or sent to an additional recipient for a specified time based on probe criteria, notification method, scout or organization. 1.4 Patch Notifications and Scheduled Package Installations You can configure SUSE Manager to send you email notifications of new and updated software packages as soon as the packages are available through Novell Customer Center. You receive one email per patch, regardless of the number of affected systems. You can also schedule package installs or package updates. The benefits include:
• Reduced time and effort required by system administrators to stay on top of the patches list • Minimized security vulnerabilities in your network through the application of updates as soon as SUSE releases them • Filtered list of package updates (packages not relevant to your network are not included) • Reliable method of managing multiple systems with similar configurations 1.5 Security, Quality Assurance, and SUSE Manager SUSE Manager provides significant benefits to your network, including security and quality assurance. All transactions made between your systems and SUSE Manager are encrypted and all RPM packages are signed with GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) signature to ensure authenticity. SUSE Manager incorporates the following security measures: 1. Your system profile, available at Novell Customer Center http://novell.com/ center is accessible only with an username and password. 2. A digital certificate is written to the client system after registration and is used to authenticate the system during each transaction between the client and SUSE Manager. The file is only readable by the root user on the client system. 3. SUSE signs all communications with an electronic signature using GPG. RPM can be used to verify the authenticity of the package before it is installed. 4. SUSE encrypts all transactions using a secure sockets layer (SSL) connection. 5. The SUSE quality assurance team tests and verifies all packages before they are added to the patch list and Novell Customer Center. SUSE Manager Overview 5
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