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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
tmpDir
Temporary working directory that the AIX patch replication script uses to download and create .tar.gz
files. Although the AIX patches are comprised of files, the SCR Tool and VCM depend on the .tar.gz
files for patch deployment. The patch replication process downloads individual files into /tmpDir, which
are compressed into a .tar.gz file that VCM uses for bulletin information in the deployment script. The
user who runs the SCR Tool must have read and write permissions to this directory.
tmpDir=/tmp/
Connect the VCM Managed Machines to the SCRTool
To establish communication between the managed machines and the host machine, connect the VCM
managed machines to the SCR Tool.
Procedure
Connect the managed machines to the SCR Tool. You must take this action for each platform type.
n Create a mount point to the respective platform directory on the SCR Tool machine that contains the
patch payload for the platform.
n Use a remote command to mount the VCM managed machine at the time of patch deployment.
n Use a remote command to FTP the files to the managed machine when the patches are deployed.
Set Logging Levels and Output File Names
The SCR Tool provides flexible logging settings and properties to customize your logging levels.
The logging levels and output file names reside in the individual <platform>-rt.properties file for
each platform type.
Platform Properties File Name
AIX
scr_root/conf/aix-rt.properties
CentOS
scr_root/conf/centos-rt.properties
HP-UX
scr_root/conf/hp-rt.properties
Mac OS X
scr_root/conf/osx-rt.properties
Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)
scr_root/conf/oracle-rt.properties
Red Hat
scr_root/conf/redhat-rt.properties
Solaris
scr_root/conf/solaris-rt.properties
SUSE
scr_root/conf/suse-rt.properties
Table 4–3. Property Files with Logging Levels and Output File Names
You can set the custom logging levels and output file names in these properties files for each run of the
SCRTool. You can use specific logging parameters for each specific patch distribution.
Configuring the Red Hat Host Machine
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