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Sun Update Connection - Enterprise 1.0 User's Guide

Chapter 16 Customizing Preferences

This chapter describes how to set preferences to control Sun Update Connection – Enterprise operations.

Note –

The preferences for the dependency manager can be viewed and edited only by the admin user.

This chapter covers the following topics:

Accessing and Editing Preferences

The following procedures explain how to access, edit, apply, and share changes among multiple hosts.

You can view and change the way the console behaves. You can view and change preferences for any agent application that is installed on a managed host, and then propagate the changes to other hosts.

If you have the admin user password, you can change the preferences for the dependency manager.

You can also set preferences for the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise server from the preferences of each of the applications. You can change the directories where downloads from the servers are kept and the protocol for the applications to communicate with each other.

Opening the Preferences Window

ProcedureTo Open the Preferences Window

  1. Log into the console.

    If you want to access the dependency manager parameters, log in as the admin user.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • From the tool bar, click the Preferences button.

    • From the Tools menu, choose Preferences.

    The Preferences window opens.

    This screen capture shows the Preferences window.

Console Preferences

Console Preferences let you control how the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise GUI operates, where files are to be stored, how it communicates with the system dependency server, and advanced background job options.

ProcedureTo Change Console Preferences

  1. In the Preferences window, select the Console radio button.

    The preferences for the console are accessible by default.

  2. Make the changes that you want.

    If you want to change various preferences in different categories of the selected entity, you can browse between the categories without clicking Submit every time. Your changes are remembered.

Console Preferences – Files

These parameters determine file upload and download times and let you set the path name of the web browser.

Console Preferences – Jobs

These parameters are fine-tuning for running and monitoring jobs.

Console Preferences – Logs

These parameters are the path names and sizes for the console logs.

Host Preferences

Host preferences manage how each agent handles Sun Update Connection – Enterprise jobs and logs, and how Sun Update Connection – Enterprise recognizes the host.

ProcedureTo Change Host Preferences

  1. In the Preferences window, select the Host radio button.

    The Host Selection window opens.

  2. Select a single host and then click OK.

  3. Wait while the Preference values of the selected agent are uploaded to the console.

    Note –

    Preference values can be uploaded only if the agent is not busy with another command.

  4. Make the changes that you want.

    If you want to change various preferences in different categories of the selected entity, you can browse between the categories without clicking Submit every time. Your changes are remembered.

ProcedureTo Share Host Preferences

You can change the preferences of one host, and apply those changes to multiple hosts. For example, if you want all managed hosts in one group to be configured for a new port, you can make the change once, and then share the new port number with all the other hosts in the group.

  1. Make the changes you want, submit them, restart the agent, and wait for changes to be uploaded.

  2. Open the Preferences window again select the original host.

  3. Click Select target hosts.

    The Select Hosts window opens.

  4. Add multiple hosts to the Selected Hosts list and then click OK.

    The preferences that you changed in the original host are copied to the selected hosts.

    You can choose to share preferences with offline hosts. Their preferences are updated when they come online.

Host Preferences – General

The following parameters offer various options for a specific host.

Host Preferences – Logs

These preferences point to the log files and set limits on their sizes. These logs are kept on the remote host.

Host Preferences – PKGs

The following parameters describe how Solaris packages are installed on Solaris machines. When you install the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Agent on a Solaris machine, the path name of the Solaris admin file is /opt/local/uce/agent/config_files/admin. This file holds the answers for package deployment. You can change these parameters in the Preferences -> Host -> PKGs window, to change the parameters individually for a specific host, or you can point Sun Update Connection – Enterprise to your own customized Solaris admin file.

Dependency Manager Preferences

The Dependency Manager Preferences control how the current Dependency Manager (DM) works with consoles and agents.

You must be logged in as the admin user to access these Preferences.

ProcedureTo Change DM Preferences

  1. In the Preferences window, select the Dependency Manager radio button.

    Wait while the values of the DM preferences are uploaded to the console from the SDS machine.

  2. Make the changes that you want.

    If you want to change various preferences in different categories of the selected entity, you can browse between the categories without clicking Submit every time. Your changes are remembered.

DM Preferences – Clients

The DM acts as a server to the agents and to the console. These parameters determine connection behavior for the DM – Console and the DM – Agent.

DM Preferences – Logs

These parameters give the path names and sizes for the DM logs on the SDS machine.

Submit Edits

After changing the values of preference parameters of an application, submit the changes and restart the application.

Submitting Preferences Customizations

In this procedure you submit the changes you made and restart the target application.

ProcedureTo Submit Changes

  1. In the Preferences window, click Submit.

    The Preferences Confirmation window opens.

    If you want to make sure the changes are applied immediately, check the Restart/Logout option.

  2. In the Preferences Confirmation window, click Submit.

    The window closes.

    Some setting changes are applied immediately. Some changes are applied only after restart. If you want to continue working and have the changes applied later, leave the Restart/Logout option in the Preferences Confirmation window deselected.

    To restart the application later, use one of the following from the command line:

    • Agent – /etc/init.d/uce_agent restart

    • Console – uce_console

    • dependency manager – /etc/init.d/uce_engine restart