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Table Of Contents
- Software Content Repository Tool 6.1 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
proxyUser=string
proxyPwd
Encrypted password for the proxy server. This password is generated using the lumension_encryptor_
tool.sh script.
proxyPwd=string
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/
Certificate
The file containing your RedHat entitlement certificate. This file is created in /etc/pki/entitlement by
subscription-manager when you attach a subscription to your registered RedHat system. The filename of
the certificate varies but is always in the form XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem where X is a decimal digit. If
there are multiple certificates in this location, you can view their contents with OpenSSL by running
openssl x509 -in cert-file.pem -noout-text, substituting the actual filename of your certificate.
If you attempt to download RedHat 7 RPMs without setting a certificate, the following error message
appears
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: certificate cannot be null or not a file
For example
certificate=/etc/pki/entitlement/5280746408908734973.pem
privateKey=/etc/pki/entitlement/5280746408908734973-key.pem
The following command is used to register RHEL7 with Red Hat Subscription Management:
subscription-manager register --username <User_Name> --password <Pass_Word> -
-auto-attach
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.
Configuring the Red Hat Host Machine
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