Installing or upgrading SMT to SLES 11 SP4.

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3 (SLES 11 SP3)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 4 (SLES 11 SP4)
Subscription Management Tool 11 Service Pack 3 (SMT11-SP3)

Situation

With the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4, a number of questions were raised up about the support for Subscription Management Tool 11 SP3 on the same platform.

Questions such as :

Will there also be a separate SMT11 SP4 release ?
Is it supported to install SMT 11 SP3 on top of SLES 11 SP4 ?
Is it possible to upgrade my SLES 11 SP3 server running with SMT11-SP3 to SLES 11 SP4 ?

Resolution

The answer to these questions are very straight-forward :

No, Product Management has decided that there will be no SMT11-SP4.
Yes, it is fully supported to install SMT11-SP3 on SLES 11 SP4. It is our advice and recommendation however to download the remastered SMT11-SP3 ISO from download.suse.com before doing so.
Yes, it is fully supported to upgrade a SLES 11 SP3 server running SMT11-SP3 to SLES 11 SP4 with the following caveat: it is necessary to first apply all the updates to SMT11-SP3, and only then continue the upgrade of SLES11 SP3 to SLES11 SP4.

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