What challenges does the Subscription Management Tool address?
• Firewall policy and regulatory compliance during the software update process • Bandwidth requirements during the software update process • Automated server entitlement tracking across large server deployments and effective measurement of subscription use so you can easily determine how many entitlements are in need of renewal at the end of a billing cycle without having to physically walk through the data center to manually update spreadsheets • Maintaining a fully supported solution to manage SUSE Linux Enterprise subscriptions without losing the existing interface with Novell Customer Center (NCC)–please see the NCC-SMT Interface FAQs for more detailed information on the technical interface between NCC and SMT