The Sentinel appliance is a ready-to-run software appliance based on the Micro Focus common appliance framework. The appliance combines a hardened SLES operating system and the Sentinel software integrated update service to provide an easy and seamless user experience that allows you to leverage existing investments. The Sentinel appliance provides a Web-based user interface to configure and monitor the appliance.
Depending on the Sentinel version, the appliance installer installs the certified SLES operating system:
For 8.2, the appliance installer installs SLES 12 SP3.
For 8.2 SP2, the appliance installer installs SLES 12 SP4.
For 8.3 SP1 and later, the appliance installer installs SLES 12 SP5.
The Sentinel appliance image is packaged in both ISO and OVF formats that can be deployed to the virtual environments. For information about supported virtualization platforms, see Sentinel System Requirements.