[Casper] 10.5.5 SUS hitting a brick wall

[Eric Young]

I've hardcoded the internal server to the OS package.  Then for a belt  
and suspenders apprach I also have it in the framework policy and make  
sure I enable the Set Server button for the software update policy I  
run.




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Eric Young
eyoung at thayer.org



On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Miles Leacy wrote:

> Thank you for that.  I deleted the client from WGM, deleted the  
> managed prefs, and rebooted.  Then I made sure my "enforce  
> management framework" policy ran.  After that, I ran "softwareupdate  
> -l", and I no longer get the error.  Unfortunately, it seems that my  
> client is looking to Apple instead of my internal SUS as specified  
> in the JSS.
>
> Any ideas as to what could be causing this?  It appears that the  
> client isn't taking the setting from the JSS.  Can anyone refresh my  
> memory - does the JSS write to com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist, or  
> does it use some other mechanism?
>
> There is a /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file,  
> but it does not contain an UpdateURL key.  There is no ~/Library/ 
> Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file.
>
> And just to rule out the "did you plug it in" level of  
> troubleshooting - I am remembering correctly that the "enforce  
> management framework" policy will configure the client's SUS setting  
> as specified in the JSS, aren't I?
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Eric Young <eyoung at thayer.org>  
> wrote:
> I was seeing that error as well.  Trying to run software update from  
> casper, ARD or any remote command got that error immediately.
>
> I found the issue was managing the software update server in the WGM  
> setting for the machine...  Once turned off managing the updates the  
> error went away.
>
>
>
> Eric Young
> eyoung at thayer.org
> 781-664-2286
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Miles Leacy wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Sorry if this is slightly off-topic, but is anyone having  
> difficulties with Software Update Server under 10.5.5?
>
> I the service is running, I can ping the SUS, the index.sucatalog  
> file is in the /usr/share/swupd/html/ directory, and the permissions  
> are lrwxr-xr-x.  As far as I can tell this should be working, but  
> when I try to update a client, I get "Operation could not be  
> completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1100.)"
>
> Has anyone with a successful 10.5.5 SUS had to do anything beyond  
> Apple's documentation to get it to work?  I'm passing the SUS  
> setting through Casper.  I've tried both the DNS name and IP in the  
> SUS record in the JSS.
>
> Thanks,
> Miles
>
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