Configuration Requirements

Your Sun Update Connection Proxy needs to obtain updates and update data from one of these sources:

• Update server. The update server can be the Sun update server or another Sun Update Connection Proxy in the chain of update servers. The Sun update server is the default source of updates.

• Local collection of updates. A collection of updates and update data that is stored in a directory available to the local system. Such a directory might be a local directory, a shared network directory, or a CD mounted on your local system.

After you set up the Sun Update Connection Proxy , you must configure each of your client systems to communicate with that proxy. Then you are ready to have your client systems obtain updates from that proxy.

If you locally manage a system that is a client of a Sun Update Connection Proxy on your intranet, you do not need to register the client system. You must register the system that acts as the proxy. If, however, your client system is also remotely managed by the Sun Update Connection Hosted web application, the client system must be registered.