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Central Software Installation and Update

‘Server Control’ offers an overview of the status of the YOU server and the

conﬁguration of its basic properties. ‘Start Server’ starts the YOU server.

This installs, conﬁgures, and starts the web server (apache2) that dis-

tributes the updates via HTTP. If ‘SLP Registration’ is activated, the YOU

server registers its service on the local SLP server. ‘Change Name’ allows

changing the name under which your local YOU server appears among the

YOU clients.

The product list shows the names of all products for which the YOU server

currently provides updates as well as the respective URLs used to synchro-

nize the update data on your local YOU server. The product running on

the machine on which the server is set up is displayed as the default. Use

‘Add’, ‘Change’, and ‘Delete’ to edit the product list. ‘Add’ and ‘Change’

open a dialog in which to enter the product name, hardware architecture,

version, and URL of origin. In the case of update servers that require au-

thentication (SUSE Maintenance Web), enter the user name and password

in this dialog.

Note

Product Data

The product name, version, and architectural designation of the

hardware are used internally by YOU to form the path under

which to search for the updates on the source server. Make sure

the correct designations are used here, as otherwise YOU can-

not ﬁnd the required updates on the source server. Receive the

data either via the YOU client dialog or by entering online_-

update -c on the command line.

Note

The status of synchronization with the source server or the date of the last

synchronization process is displayed in the synchronization area. ‘Synchro-

nize Now’ activates a synchronization process. All updates for the listed

products are downloaded and stored under /var/lib/YaST2/you/

mnt/. From here, the updates are made available to all associated YOU

clients for installation purposes. ‘Conﬁgure Automatic Synchronization’

opens a dialog in which to automate synchronization with a cronjob.

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