Bug 1213130

Summary:	[doc] Explain wicked vs. NetworkManager
Product:	[openSUSE] PUBLIC SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5	Reporter:	Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Frank Sundermeyer <fs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P0 - Crit Sit
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:	https://jira.suse.com/browse/DOCTEAM-1035
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Christoph Wickert 2023-07-07 09:41:28 UTC

Network configuration:

https://susedoc.github.io/doc-sle/main/html/SLES-deployment/cha-install.html#sec-yast-install-proposal-network
and
https://susedoc.github.io/doc-sle/main/html/SLES-installation/article-installation.html#sec-sle-installquick-install-inst-settings

Some users are confused why YaST sometimes installs wicked and sometimes NetworkManager, see https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy/110668031417299139

For server installs (base system and server applications modules), the default is wicked, but as soon as you install a desktop environment (desktop applications module), you get NetworkManager. Currently this logic is only (partly) explained in the Admin guide at 
https://susedoc.github.io/doc-sle/main/html/SLES-administration/cha-nm.html

As you can switch from wicked to NM during installation, we need this in the Quickinstall and Deployment guides, too. We need to mention that NM is not supported for servers.

Comment 1 Christoph Wickert 2023-07-07 13:03:07 UTC

Fixed in
main https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/commit/a0de53dd
maintenance/SLE15SP5: https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/commit/a83430dc
maintenance/SLE15SP4: https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/commit/7530755b
maintenance/SLE15SP3: https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle/commit/7675595d

(Adjusted to P3 as this is a question of support. NetworkManager is not supported for servers.)