Applications

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.

Figure 1–1 Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Architecture