Re: Rational Updater

Mark,

Thanks.  I had already printed out your instructions this morning.  It's a 
nice idea, but we're a little limited on disk right now.  Getting 3 GB 
stored on our systems twice would take a little more effort than I can 
justify at this time.  I do like that it's all automated.

What I would really like is to set it up without a web server.  I've been 
able to download the updates, but my problem must be with properly 
configuring the policy.xml file so RPU doesn't go the Internet.

If I can free up 3 GB on my local machine, maybe I can use it for the 
local mirror of the update site.  Then copy them to a directory for the 
webserver -- I'll look into it.

Michael

Original message:

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message: 8
date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:47:43 -0500
from: Mark Phippard <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Rational Updater

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/08/2006 04:35:59 PM:

> I would love this.  I find the instructions on doing a local install 
great 
> until you find that you have to set up a the XML policy file.  Then 
things 
> seem muddy to me.  RSDP Updater still wants to go out and check the 
> Internet for updates.  I'm sure I'm just overlooking something simple.

I posted details on how to setup a local update site, which I think is the 

easiest and best way to do this if you have more than one client:

http://archive.midrange.com/wdsci-l/200602/msg00378.html

The great thing about this technique is that you do not need to know where 

the updates are located, it just find them via the same mechanism as the 
product updater.  It also creates the policy.xml file for you.

The one big negative to this technique is that since it is mirroring the 
update site you have to mirror down a lot of updates that you already 
applied and otherwise no longer need (unless you setup a new PC).  I just 
did this and having this all available locally made it a lot more 
manageable.

Mark