Multiple Distribution Host Lists

Sun Update Connection – Enterprise has the ability to simultaneously manage machines of different operating systems and architectures. You can create a single job and send it to any or all of your hosts. A single agent will ignore the components that are irrelevant to its distribution.

You can create Inventory-based jobs, profiles, and policies that contain components of several distributions, by selecting a new distribution in the drop-down list. However, Sun Update Connection – Enterprise offers a feature to make multiple distribution management easier.

For example, if you have a group of web servers, some of which are Red Hat 9.0 and others are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Advanced Server, you can create one profile for web servers.

While you create the profile, you can apply settings to components of either of the distributions. Then, rather than searching for the same components in the other distribution, you can use the multiple distribution feature. It will automatically align the selected components with similar components on the other distribution. You can either accept the automatic alignment or intervene with checks and changes of your own.