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Table Of Contents
- Software Content Repository Tool 5.1 Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction to the Software Content Repository Tool
- Preparing for SCR Tool Installation
- Installing the Prerequisite Software for the SCR Tool
- Configuring the Red Hat Host Machine
- Managing Patch Content with the SCR Tool
- Troubleshooting the SCR Tool
- Out of Memory Error
- Content Download Network Connection Error
- Cannot Connect to Red Hat Account
- Session Login to Red Hat Fails
- Download from Red Hat Fails
- HP-UX Service Authentication Fails
- Download from HP Fails
- Proxy Server Configuration Fails
- Mismatch in Number of Patches
- OS Vendor Does Not Accept Credentials
- OS Vendor Errors
- Patch Download Errors
- Obsolete Patches Cause the Download to Fail
- HTTP Errors Are Not Marked as SEVERE
- Connection Refused Errors
- Null Pointer Exception Errors
- Index
Procedure
1. Open the SCRTool root directory.
This is the directory where you unzipped the .tar.gz file.
2. Verify that the .pls files are stored in the subdirectories for each platform.
The subdirectories include ./aix, ./centos-nca-*, ./hpux, ./oracle-nca-*, ./osx, ./redhat-
nca, ./solaris, and ./suse-nca.
The platform-nca directories indicate new content architecture directories that have alternative
locations.
3. In the payload directory, verify that the subdirectories contain the platform vendor patch files and the
.plp files.
The new content architecture places some patches in alternative locations.
Patches Location
CENTOS CentOS/rpm
OracleLINUX
Oracle/rpm
Red Hat
RedHat/getPackage/
SUSE SUSE/rpm/
4. In the payload directory, verify that the Mac OSX payload folders contain only .plp files, which
embed the vendor patches.
If extractOSX=true is defined in the properties file for Mac OS X, the physical vendor patch appears.
Grant Permission to the Repository
The host machine must have execute permission for all of the repository application files to access and
update the properties files. To grant this permission, you run a command on the host machine.
Procedure
1. Go to the scr_root directory on the host machine.
2. Open a terminal session.
3. Change directories to the SCR root directory.
4. To change the mode, run the chmod -R a+x **/* command.
5. Change the working directory to scr_root/bin.
Update the Properties Files
User credentials and environment settings are stored in the properties files that the SCR Tool uses to
download the patch content for each supported platform. The download process uses the properties files
to determine how to replicate the patch content on the SCR Tool host machine for each platform.
The format for the properties file names is platform-rt.properties.
Each downloaded replication file requires between 512 MB of RAM (minimum) and 2 GB (maximum).
For Red Hat: If files differ between a Red Hat client and a Red Hat server, such as x86 versus x64, you
must generate a separate scr_root/conf/.properties file for each.
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