How to manage SuseLinux?

Article Title: How to manage SuseLinux ?. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

SuSE's prototype can be traced back to 10 years ago. In 1993, it was founded by four Germans and now owns SuSE companies: Hubert Mantel, Burchard Steinbild, Roland Dyroff, and Thomas Fehr. Early SuSE companies did not develop their own operating systems, but used Slackware (a Linux operating system known for its stability) all scripts and comments are translated into German and installed in 40 floppy disks. Later, CD was used as the loading media release.

Finally, the Germans decided to develop their own operating systems instead of fixing the Slackware bugs. They also wanted to improve the operational performance of Slackware and add better installation and configuration tools. They transplanted a primary operating system from Florian LaRoche and improved it, resulting in the birth of SuSE's first Linux operating system: suSE Linux4.2. at the same time, SuSE also developed a famous system installation and configuration tool: YaST.

In early 1997, SuSE started its first North American company in Auckland, California, and thus entered the world's Linux system market.

Linux advantages

The first is aesthetics and flexibility. Suse Linux is more flexible in many aspects than Windows. The desktop management method will be refined to an unexpected level. As long as you are willing to, you can define a personalized interface in the operating system based on your preferences, rotate windows as you like, and operate multiple windows at the same time, you can also enable free desktop activity to pull windows to different desktops, or automatically play a non-maximized window after the window is maximized. In addition, the window can be enlarged in real time when the screen remains dynamic. Compared with Apple's proud 3D desktop, I don't know how many times ahead! Most Suse Linux applications can be modified by users according to different needs, and then re-compiled. Software in the open-source community adopts high flexibility and modular design.

Second, quick fixing of Security and vulnerabilities: If you frequently access the Internet, you will often hear people say "no absolutely secure host ". Yes. However, Suse Linux is also a kind of Linux, and it also has a large number of supporters. Many enthusiastic groups and individuals participate in the development, so they can get the latest security information and update it at any time, relatively safe.

Third, multi-task and multi-platform scalability. Unlike Windows systems, Suse Linux Hosts can allow multiple users to work online at the same time, and the resource allocation is fair. This kind of multi-user and multi-task is quite good for UNIX-like systems. You can plan different levels of users on an Suse Linux host, and each user can log on to the system in a different operating environment. You can also allow different users to log on to the host at the same time to use the resources of the host at the same time.

Fourth, high stability Suse Linux is an operating system developed based on the UNIX concept. It has similar program interfaces and operation methods as UNIX systems and inherits the stable and efficient features of UNIX. It is common for a host that has been running Suse Linux for more than one year without having to shut down.

Effective management of Suse Linux using Mocha BSM

Although Suse Linux systems are relatively easy to maintain than commercial UNIX systems, Suse Linux systems still have some difficulties in daily maintenance management:

There are many release versions, and there are some differences between products of various manufacturers. For example, Ubuntu, RedHat, and RedFlag are developed based on standard kernel versions, but there are still many differences in system maintenance, Software and Hardware Management, and network management. It is difficult to find a monitoring software that supports so many versions. Therefore, many enterprises can only invest in multiple monitoring software or drop monitoring of some Suse Linux Hosts. Now, this problem is effectively solved through multiple Linux platforms supported by Mocha BSM.

As a large enterprise, not only is there a Linux release version in use, the administrator needs to learn the maintenance of multiple systems. However, the management workload is huge because of the large quantity. In some enterprise IT environments, cluster-based Linux deployment architecture is often used, because the overall cost of using a Linux system is low, the distributed architecture can meet the high performance requirements of enterprise applications and reduce the total cost of ownership. In this way, administrators often need to maintain a large number of Linux Hosts. When the number of hosts reaches dozens or even hundreds, manual management is almost impossible to complete the tasks, it will reduce the running efficiency of the entire application system, so it is difficult to manage Linux and the number of hosts. Through unified monitoring and management, Mocha BSM can master the performance of the entire application system as a whole. It has a wide range of monitoring metrics, flexible policy management, and a friendly display interface.

Various alarm methods provide the most professional data reports for enterprises, and provide root cause analysis for downtime, helping administrators solve problems faster, it helps enterprises perform system resizing and business growth in a targeted manner, but the number of maintenance personnel can remain unchanged, so that end users can get higher quality application services.