5.0 Installing the Appliance

The Sentinel appliance is a ready-to-run software appliance built on SUSE Studio. The appliance combines a hardened SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP 1 operating system and the Sentinel software integrated update service to provide an easy and seamless user experience that allows customers to leverage existing investments. The software appliance can be installed on hardware or in a virtual environment.