[Casper] Any reason not to deploy Apple packages from JSS?

[Thomas Larkin]

I had the same problem with my clients seeing the updates.  They would
successfully see the SUS but never pull down an update.  I was going to
post this back to the list but haven't had time yet and I have had other
things to do.  It had to do with my DNS settings on the SUS itself.  For
some reason they weren't in proper configuration.  Jesse from the
mailing list sent me this: 

Actually, that will only work temporarily.  As soon as a new update
comes 
out from apple or you change a setting in your Software Update server 
(within server admin) this config will get overwritten.  What you need
to do 
to ensure that this will work properly is change an entry in the file: 

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist 

This file is used by OS X server to write different configurations when 
using server admin.  In any case, find the following piece of this file 

<key>System</key> 
        <dict> 
            <key>ComputerName</key> 
            <string>servername</string> 
            <key>ComputerNameEncoding</key> 
            <integer>0</integer> 
            <key>HostName</key> 
            <string>fullyqualifiedomain.com</string> 
        </dict> 

Using vi or some other text editor you can change the string under the 
³HostName² key to be ³xs001‑swu.kckps.org².  This will ensure that when
OS X 
server writes configurations in the future it will use that fqdm as its 
hostname.  To ensure that this change is reflected immediately in your 
system type ³sudo hostname xs001‑swu.kckps.org² in terminal. 

That pretty much fixed it for me.  The hostname string was wrong and
wasn't the whole FQDN that we had in our DNS database.  Once i fixed
that, SUS worked like a charm and I am doing it through self service as
of right now. 



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Thomas Larkin
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>>> "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 10/29/08 9:39 AM >>>
Hey all, 


I'm having trouble getting my 10.4 clients to see updates on my 10.5.5
Software Update Server.  While I try to work this out with Apple
support, I was thinking of downloading the Apple packages, adding them
too the JSS and deploying them that way. 



Since the general SOP is to have the JSS kick off Apple's
softwareupdate, I was wondering if anyone knows of any significant
difference in deploying an Apple package via softwareupdate, vs
deploying it from the JSS. 



Thanks, 

Miles 



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