HP Device Manager 4.6 - Repository Management

Overview
A new mechanism called “Automated Repository Management” has been implemented to improve the efficiency of HPDM
and ensure the consistency of resources in all repositories through automated synchronization. Automated Repository
Management makes it easier to associate a payload with templates, manage multiple Child Repositories, synchronize
content between repositories, and remove content from repositories.
A repository is a file server that stores payloads used in HPDM tasks, like software components, system images, tools, and
agent files. There can be multiple repositories in an HPDM setup. One repository contains the master copy of the payloads
and is called the Master Repository. The other repositories replicate the contents of the Master Repository and are called
Child Repositories.
The following tasks need to transfer payloads through repositories:
• Agent
– _Update Agent
• File and Registry
– _File and Registry > Capture Files, Deploy Files
• Settings
– _Apply Easy Tools Configurations
– _Apply Easy Tools Settings
• Imaging
– _Capture Image
– _Deploy Image
– _PXE Capture
– _PXE Deploy
Mechanism
On the Master Repository, a component named the Master Repository Controller manages the content in the Master
Repository and synchronizes that content to the Child Repositories as requested by the HPDM Server. The HPDM Server
works with the Master Repository Controller to prepare the payload for tasks.
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