When you install the Deployment Server, the installation includes product metadata that includes information about Symantec, all prior base, maintenance, and hot fix releases across all the products and the platforms. If your system has Internet access, release matrix information is automatically updated from the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) site with each use. If your system is behind a firewall, these updates are not possible and the release matrices eventually get out of date.
To update release information on systems without Internet access, you can download a .tar
file (deploy_sfha.tar
) containing all the latest release matrices. Then, load it on to your Deployment Server. The deploy_sfha.tar
file available from the SORT site is updated on a daily basis, and there are typically several release updates every week captured in the updates.
Downloading a .tar file from the SORT site
Loading releases and hot fixes onto your Deployment Server
To obtain a .tar
file with release updates, the easiest method is to download a copy from the SORT website.
To download a .tar file from the SORT site
https://sort.symantec.com/support/related_links/offline-release-updates
In this procedure, the Internet-enabled system is the system to which you downloaded the deploy_sfha.tar file.
To load releases and hot fixes onto your Deployment Server
# cd /opt/VRTS/install/
# ./deploy_sfha
Enter the location of the meta-data tar file: [b] (/opt/VRTS/install/deploy_sfha.tar)
For example, enter the location of the meta-data tar file:
/tmp/deploy_sfha.tar