The SUSE Manager 3.1 - Best Practices Guide describes SUSE recommended best practices for SUSE Manager. This information has been collected from a large number of successful SUSE Manager real world implementations and includes feedback provided by product management, sales and engineering.This chapter will discuss the following topics: Prerequisites Network Requirements Hardware Requirements This book is available for free in many languages and different formats on the suse.com web site. This book is printed in grayscale.