Sun Update Connection – Enterprise provides lifecycle change management for Solaris environments or Linux environments.
This chapter explains how Sun Update Connection – Enterprise makes your network and system administration more efficient and more secure.
This chapter covers the following topics:
Sun Update Connection – Enterprise is a software tool that manages the complete lifecycle deployment in an enterprise Linux environment and in an enterprise Solaris environment. The Sun Update Connection – Enterprise solution significantly reduces the time and expertise required to build and deploy an updated, secure, and reliable environment.
Sun Update Connection – Enterprise ensures the integrity of the environment, which includes the kernel, the operating system, open source components, middleware, third-party applications, and homegrown applications. Sun Update Connection – Enterprise uses a sophisticated patented technology that maps interdependencies between software components.
The Certification Lab generates real-world deployment rules, the most exact and up-to-date, for thousands of authenticated components. These rules are based on actual tests for every phase of the system lifecycle. You can use Sun Update Connection – Enterprise to manage development, test, and production machines with certified components and rules. You can also manage machines with rules you generate by using the local expansion technology to include third-part applications and homegrown applications. Every day the Certification Lab adds more components and deployment rules to the universal server.
The system dependency server is installed at your site. This server extracts and retains system logic from the underlying operating systems and hardware platforms of your managed hosts. Logic abstraction maximizes ongoing system investment and mitigates the risk of being locked into a single vendor, distribution, or hardware platform.
Sun Update Connection – Enterprise includes the following functions and features:
Audit trail
Auto-dependency handling
Auto-discovery of installed components
CLI and API for integration with IT processes and other management tools
Graphical user interface (GUI) for centralized control of numerous remote machines
Individual deployment resolutions for each managed host
Job automation
Machine comparisons and cloning
Patch management
Script repository
Multiple host execution of pre-installation actions and post-installation actions
Simultaneous support for multiple Solaris versions and Linux distributions and hardware
Software inventory backups for rollback and disaster-recovery
Software provisioning and file installation for multiple hosts
Support for private and third-party components
The Sun Update Connection – Enterprise solution is scalable, equally applicable to standalone servers, clusters, and mainframes. This flexibility is a result of the architecture: a collection of separate applications that interact to provide a synergistic environment for Linux and Solaris optimization.
The Sun Update Connection – Enterprise product includes the following applications:
System Dependency Server (SDS). Acts as your local proxy to the universal server at Sun.
The SDS includes the following:
Server application. Pulls certified updates from the universal server and pushes local packages and scripts to the local knowledge base.
Dependency manager (DM). Manages communications between applications, and performs job queuing and data storage.
Knowledge base. Caches both certified and generated deployment rules, as well as certified and local components.
Local expansion technology. Generates rules for local components.
Agent. Is installed on each managed host. The agent runs the dependency resolver (DR) to find the best job solutions for the individual managed host.
Console. Is the graphical user interface (GUI) from which users initiate tasks for the agents on the managed hosts. You can also use a command-line interface (CLI) or application programming interfaces (APIs) to create your own user interface.