Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Manage SUSE patches
The second phase of the SUSE Patching mechanism – although optional, sometimes can be very important in the patching process. Since SUSE patches are just normal RPM packages, you can do all the operations that SA Client allows you to do on SUSE packages:
- Open the package
- Viewing and editing package properties
- Viewing package contents
- Viewing all software policies associated with a package
- Deleting a package
- Renaming a package
- Locating packages in folders
Restricting access to RPM folders
SA builds a custom RPM repository for use by both SUSE Patching mechanism and the software management jobs. This is built on a server-by-server basis, taking into account several packages and server properties and user-defined settings.
The repository that SA downloads to a managed server before actually scanning the server for recommended patches is built as follows:
- Packages whose platform set does not include the server platform are excluded from the RPM repository.
- Packages in folders whose customer constraints do not include the customer of the server are excluded from the RPM repository.
- If one or more repo.restrict custom attributes are defined for a particular server, only packages in the folders specified by these custom attributes are included in the RPM repository.
In SA, you can specify in a custom attribute, the folders in the SA Library that the server has access to. All other folders will be inaccessible to the server. This gives you folder-level control over which versions of RPMs can be applied to a given server, allowing you to precisely manage platform update versions, for example SLES 11 SP4 versus SP5.
Note This is not intended as a user-level access control mechanism, but rather to restrict the library and folder view of a managed server from access to the full set of RPMs in the SA Library.
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