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By: Sören Schmidt

March 10, 2025 9:10 am

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saptune 3.1.5 – Just (small) Fixes

Today 3.1.5 has been released for SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP3-6. It contains some small fixes: On Azure saptune will now create a drop-in for saptune.service when first called to be started after cloud-final.service. This is needed, because on Azure swap space will be created via cloud-init […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 13, 2024 11:33 am

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saptune 3.1.3 – Minor Fixes and a Note Update

If you check the repositories of SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP5 and 15 SP2-6 you find a saptune package 3.1.3. What does this update contain? Removal of SAP Note 1868829 from S4HANA-APPSERVER Solution Thanks to the customer who spotted this mistake, we missed for some time. SAP Note 1868829 - Startup Issues […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

March 22, 2024 2:24 pm

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saptune 3.1.2 – Bugfixing and Note Updates

This month we released a maintenance update for saptune: 3.1.2 I was asked by to write s a short blog post about the changes. Here it is! Reducing the lock scope To avoid several saptune processes to run simultaneously and creating a mess, saptune always set a lock on start. Only one saptune […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

December 14, 2023 4:46 pm

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saptune 3.1.1 – Do I Need to Update?

This week an update of saptune has reached the repositories and the immanent question is: Do I have to update to 3.1.1? As you know, the general answer for that kind of question is always "yes", but lets have a closer look. An increment at the third part of the version number […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

October 2, 2023 11:03 am

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saptune 3.1 is out

Last week saptune 3.1 was made available in all official repositories for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (saptune-3.1.0-4.15.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.[…]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 12, 2022 7:17 am

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Help! Saptune says, my system is degraded!

Recently we got again questions about the system state in the output of saptune status, so it's time to talk about it. If everything is fine, you should get an output like this: # saptune status ... system state: running ... But, if not, then you will get: # saptune status ... system state: degraded ... A degraded system […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

March 22, 2022 1:46 pm

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The Treasure Hunting goes on: “Collecting saptune Data with Prometheus”

Three weeks ago my colleague Bernd Schubert published a blog post about Discover the hidden treasure. This one is sort of a follow-up and describes, how to use the textfile.collector to retrieve data from saptune. I recommend to read his blog post first, because I'll not explain everything in all details. "Wait!", […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 3, 2020 1:12 pm

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sapconf versus saptune – again

After the blog post about 'sapconf 5' a few hours ago, I was asked by various people: Shall we use 'sapconf 5' instead of 'saptune 2'? Before rumors or confusion spread, let me clarify. In short: If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server' only 'sapconf' is available. If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for […]

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July 22, 2019 3:20 pm

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A new saptune is here!

A few weeks ago I announced the new saptune version 2: A new saptune is knocking on your door The time of waiting is over! If you now run a zypper search -s saptune, you will find the saptune version 2 in the repositories of "SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP2-4/15/15 SP1". Because we […]

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