[Casper] Software Update - laptop labs, progress indicator

[Thomas Larkin]

I suggest you look into an ongoing policy that caches the updates and then once every laptop is cached the proper updates you can trigger them to install from cache.  That way you can kind of control when they update and reboot.  That way you can push them out to cache and let them sit there then say, OK, on Monday I am going to tell all clients to run these updates from cache and wham, you are done.  You also have it narrowed down to run on one day. 

Just a thought. 

Or you can look into self service and have the end user trigger it.


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>>> Clinton Blackmore <clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca> 04/02/09 9:22 AM >>>
Greetings.

How do you handle software updates on laptop labs?  We have carts of 
laptops in our schools, and, if they are not being used by a student, 
they are charging in the cart.  That doesn't provide for a nice way to 
update them after hours without pulling each machine out of the cart, 
and yet, I don't really want to pop up a message to a student saying, 
"Your computer is going to reboot now.  Deal with it!"

Also, when you use the GUI tools to do software update, the machine 
logs out and you get a nice progress indicator showing that updates 
are installing.  Is there any way to do that from the command line?  
(Yes, I know one can install updates, and Casper handles it nicely, 
but can I get the progress bar?  We had some machines set to update, 
and then found they had kernel panicked.  We wondered if a user 
noticed the machine became sluggish and forced it off.)  More 
generally, how do you convey to users that updates are in progress?

Cheers,
Clinton Blackmore

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