HP Device Manager 4.6 Administrator Guide

Repositories
Repositories are where task payload files are stored. HPDM Agents download files from or upload
files to repositories according to tasks from the HPDM Server. These files can include but are not
limited to the following:
Device images
Imaging tools
HPDM Gateway and HPDM Agent files
Software components (add-ons)
The components of the repository system are as follows:
Master Repository—Holds all payload files. There can only be one Master Repository in the
system.
Child Repository—Holds all or some payload files. There can be multiple Child Repositories.
Master Repository Controller—Manages the payload files in the Master Repository and
synchronizes the files with the Child Repositories as requested by the HPDM Server. The
Master Repository Controller must be installed on the same computer as the Master Repository.
Repositories are standard file servers and support the following protocols:
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
FTPS (FTP Secure)
SFTP (Secure FTP)
SMB (Server Message Block)
TIP: The SMB protocol is a network file-sharing protocol. Its implementation in Windows is
known as Shared Folder, and in Linux it is known as Samba. The Common Internet File System
(CIFS) protocol is a dialect of SMB.
A repository can use either one or two protocols as follows:
If using only one protocol, it can be any of the four protocols listed above.
If using two protocols, one of them must be SMB. SMB is needed for non-cached imaging in
Windows Embedded Standard (WES). For the second protocol, one of the other three (FTP/
FTPS/SFTP) is recommended for HP ThinPro and HP Smart Zero Core imaging because SMB
is not well-supported for those operating systems. All other tasks can use any of the protocols.
TIP: If two protocols are configured for a repository, FTP/FTPS/SFTP will be tried first, unless
it’s a non-cached WES imaging task.
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