To Configure a GlassFish Server Installation to Use a Local Repository Server Inside a Closed Network

Each GlassFish Server installation that will be updated inside a closed network must be configured to use a local repository server instead of the default public repository servers.

Before You Begin

This procedure must be completed on each GlassFish Server installation on which updates will be performed inside the closed network.

Ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The Pre-Installed Toolkit Image is installed on each machine on which one or more GlassFish Server installations will be upgraded, as described in To Install the Pre-Installed Toolkit Image Inside a Closed Network

• The local repository server is configured, as described in To Configure a Local Repository Server Inside a Closed Network

1. Set the http_proxy environment variable for the local repository server, if necessary.

   This step is required if a proxy is needed to access the local repository from within the closed network.

   export http_proxy=proxy-host:port

   proxy-host

   The fully qualified URL for the proxy host.

   port

   The port on which the proxy-host listens.

2. Change to the GlassFish Server installation directory.

   cd as-install

   as-install

   The path to the directory that contains the GlassFish Server installation that is to be updated.

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   Note –

   The remainder of this procedure must be performed from within the GlassFish Server installation directory.

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3. Use the pkg command in the Pre-Installed Image Toolkit installation directory to tell the GlassFish Server installation to use the local repository server.

   toolkit-dir/pkg/bin/pkg -R as-install set-publisher -Pe -O http://repo-host:port publisher

   toolkit-dir

   The directory that contains the unzipped Pre-Installed Toolkit Image.

   as-install

   The path to the directory that contains the GlassFish Server installation that is to be updated.

   repo-host

   The name of the server on which the pkg.depotd repository server daemon is running.

   port

   The port used for the pkg.depotd daemon, as specified in To Configure a Local Repository Server Inside a Closed Network.

   publisher

   The name of the preconfigured GlassFish Server publisher. For GlassFish Server, use release.glassfish.sun.com as the publisher.

4. (Optional) Verify that the local GlassFish Server repository is configured correctly.

   toolkit-dir/pkg/bin/pkg publisher

   The name of the of the local server repository and publisher should be listed, as shown in the following example.

Example 10–2 Configuring the pkg Command to Use a Local Repository

This example configures a GlassFish Server installation to use a local repository server. The following parameters are used:

/opt/glassfish

The GlassFish Server installation directory.

/opt/toolkit

The Pre-Installed Toolkit Image directory.

repohost

The host name of the local repository server.

30000

The port number used by the repository server.

/opt/toolkit/pkg/bin/pkg -R /opt/glassfish set-publisher -P --enable \
-O http://repohost:30000 release.glassfish.sun.com
# /opt/toolkit/pkg/bin/pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
release.glassfish.sun.com (preferred)  origin   online   http://repohost:30000/