The Sentinel appliance is a ready-to-run software appliance built on SUSE Studio. 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 customers to leverage existing investments. Before you install the Sentinel appliance, review new functionality and known issues in the supported SLES Release Notes.
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 the NetIQ Sentinel Technical Information Website.