# Manage CentOS with Susemanager? **URL:** \ **Category:** SUSE Multi Linux Manager\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/manage-centos-with-susemanager/24615 "2013-10-14T13:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/manage-centos-with-susemanager/24615/1 "2013-10-14T13:56:00Z")
Hi to all, I’m new to SuseManager, so maybe my question sounds dumb… It is stated that one can manage SLES and Redhat (RHEL?) with SuseManager. But what’s about CentOS? Tom ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/manage-centos-with-susemanager/24615/2 "2013-10-14T15:08:51Z")
Since CentOS is basically rebranded RHEL I’d expect it to work. With that said, Novell/SUSE have typically only tested with RHEL since that’s the distribution from which most customers have migrated to SLES, on which most customers have requested support. Will CentOS be supported at this point? Probably not, so if you have a problem be sure you can reproduce it on RHEL as well, or petition SUSE to support CentOS as well via an enhancement request ( [http://www.novell.com/rms/](http://www.novell.com/rms/) ). – Good luck. If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/manage-centos-with-susemanager/24615/3 "2013-10-14T16:20:01Z")
Am 14.10.2013 14:08, schrieb ab:[color=blue] > Since CentOS is basically rebranded RHEL I’d expect it to work. With that[/color] > Me too… > [color=blue] > said, Novell/SUSE have typically only tested with RHEL since that’s the > distribution from which most customers have migrated to SLES, on which > most customers have requested support. Will CentOS be supported at this[/color] > I was afraid of that answer… [color=blue] > point? Probably not, so if you have a problem be sure you can reproduce > it on RHEL as well[/color] > Good point > [color=blue] > or petition SUSE to support CentOS as well via an > enhancement request ( [http://www.novell.com/rms/](http://www.novell.com/rms/) )[/color] At this early moment I’m just thinking (not really evaluating) management tools and suites. Thank you AB Tom ---
**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/manage-centos-with-susemanager/24615/4 "2013-10-14T18:10:23Z")
K, well if you get into it SUSE Manager (and SMT, which is free currently) is supposed to be pretty neat. I’ve seen demos of SMT which let you do obvious things like cache channels at your site (better performance, less data usage for the enterprise, etc.) to do staging of patches, so you can create channels on your server, all pulling the patches from Novell/SUSE, which are made for the production servers, the QA servers, the dev servers, etc. Point each type of server to its own appropriate channel (test servers to test channels, prod servers to prod channels, etc.) and then apply the appropriate patches to those servers. This means you can configure all of your servers to do auto updates of whatever they can see, and then you can control what they see. Push out everything you need to test servers. If they are okay, push out to QA servers by just choosing where the patches show up (in which channels) and then the QA servers update. Next prod, etc. Pretty fun since otherwise you’re going to each server, choosing updates yourself, getting everything from the main server which may be receiving newer (untested by you) patches as you go through this process, which means greater risk. SMT resolves that problem pretty nicely, and I’ve heard SUSE Manager can do a bit more by letting you have a bit more definition to group servers by roles (an Oracle database-hosting system gets these patches, while an Apache httpd box gets those, etc.). – Good luck. If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, show your appreciation and click on the star below…