[Casper] Updates

Thu Dec 11 12:15:15 PST 2008

I'm just spitballing, but SUS settings ought to be a plist or plists.
 Perhaps you could capture the settings on your "primary" SUS and deploy
them out to your "child" SUSes.
You may need to copy the actual packages from primary to child SUSes.  I'd
probably try rsync first.

With the packages copied to the appropriate place, and the plists updated,
you may get what you need.

Take this with the huge caveat that I haven't tried this.  I'm just
theorizing the possibility.

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:02 PM, <NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org> wrote:

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> I have multiple Distribution points that are 10.5 OS X servers that also
> run SUS, problem is I can't get the remote servers to pull the updates from
> my master SUS.  I've tried some of the suggestions without luck.  Anyone
> else doing this ?
> -Nathaniel
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> Are the distribution points on OS X Servers?  If so, the easiest solution
> is to create multiple instances of SUS on different network segments.
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> I was thinking through an automated way to move packages from an SUS to a
> Casper distribution point, and it's relatively easy to get the packages
> there.  The hurdle is making them useful to Software Update, or even to
> Casper.
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> I suppose you could forego the SUS and add Apple update pkgs to your JSS
> and deploy them that way.  This would bring on additional work as you'd
> need to determine the dependencies and compatibility of each update
> manually and scope their installation appropriately.  If you use an SUS and
> Software Update, Apple does that work for you.
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Larkin <TLARKI at kckps.org> wrote:
>  I have a self service policy that runs all approved updates off of our
>  sus. I also download the pkg for quick critical updates and push them
>  out via a policy.
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>  I only have one sus and it would be awesome if I could cache those
>  updates to the casper distribution points. Then I wouldn't have 6000
>  clients pulling updates off one server.  Then just use that one server
>  to control it while the casper share points distribute it to their set
>  vlans.
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com>
>  Cc: List, Casper <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
>  To: Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>
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>  Sent: 12/11/2008 11:29:28 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Casper] Updates
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>  Do your users run it via self-service?
>  I have an "updates available" smart group that consists of all machines
>  with
>  >0 updates available.  A self-service policy scoped to this smart group
>  allows non-admins to run Apple updates.  As silly as it may seem, this
>  option can inflate the egos of many users.  You might be surprised how
>  far
>  the illusion of control gets you with people.
>
>  Of course, I have a second policy scoped to the same group that runs
>  over
>  the weekend for anyone who didn't avail themselves of self-service.
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>  2008/12/11 Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>
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>  >  I run our own Software Update Server so I can vette any packages
>  first.
>  >  If it's ok, I release it in SUS and let the software update mechanism
>  > handle it.  I do force a once monthly mandatory update.  Users can run
>  it
>  > optionally on their own or it'll pop up automatically weekly.
>  >
>  > j
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>  > On 12/11/08 12:12 , "Jeff Strauss" <jstrauss at loyolahs.edu> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hey all,
>  >
>  > Do you guys have any procedures for deploying updates to machines? If
>  so,
>  > can you shed some light on how you handle updating clients?
>  >
>  > Thank you much!
>  >
>  > *Jeffrey A. Strauss
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