depot server

[maliaka]

Is there a way to push a depot install from the depot server instead of login to each server to install the depot over the network?

10 points for the best answer!

Thanks in advance

[Dennis Handly]

Not directly, you need to install an optional product, from swinstall:
+ To install and manage software simultaneously on multiple
remote hosts (including HP-UX, other UNIXr platforms, and
Windows NTr) from a central controller, you must purchase the
HP OpenView Software Distributor which provides extended
software management capabilities. Information specific only to
the OpenView product is marked with a heading similar the
following:

[whiteknight]

Maliaka,


You can consider HP SIM. I remember you can push the patch depot install.

There is a whitepaper using HP SIM to simply manage server setup
- create depot.


WK

[Dennis Handly]

>WK: You can consider HP SIM.

That's probably the replacement for HP OpenView Software Distributor.

Neither of these is mentioned in the 11.31 man page.

[Matti_Kurkela]

man swinstall, see paragraph titled "Remote Operation".

You need to login once to each server to give them permission to receive the "push" installations from the depot server.

To enable the remote operations menus on the depot server, use the command:
touch /var/adm/sw/.sdkey

MK

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - use swinstall....

Man page example:


To linkinstall the product TEST to the clients clientA, clientB from
the server:

swinstall -l -r -s :OS_700 TEST @ clientA clientB

Rgds...Geoff