Running Suse Linux Enterprise - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual

gies, network root file systems or network storage solutions like iSCSI should be con-
sidered. See also Chapter 12, Mass Storage over IP Networks—iSCSI (page 271).
SUSE Linux Enterprise provides you with a broad variety of services. Find an overview
of the documentation in this book in About This Guide (page xv). Most of the needed
configurations can be made with YaST, the SUSE configuration utility. In addition to
that, many manual configurations are described in the corresponding chapters.
In addition to the plain software installation, you should consider training the end users
of the systems as well as help desk staff.

1.3 Running SUSE Linux Enterprise

The SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system is a well-tested and stable system. Unfor-
tunately, this does not prevent hardware failures or other causes for downtime or data
loss. For any serious computing task where data loss could occur, a regular backup
should be done.
For optimal security and safe work, you should make regular updates of all the operated
machines. If you have a mission critical server, you should probably run a second
identical machine where you can apply all changes for testing purposes before doing
so on the real system. This also gives you the possibility to switch machines in case of
hardware failure.
6 Installation and Administration