About the Deployment Server


About the Deployment Server
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The Deployment Server makes it easier to install or upgrade SFHA releases from a central location. The Deployment Server lets you store multiple release images and patches in one central location and deploy them to systems of any supported UNIX or Linux operating system (6.1 or later).

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The script-based installer for version 6.1 and higher supports installations from one operating system node onto a different operating system. Therefore, heterogeneous push installations are supported for 6.1 and higher releases only.

Push installations for product versions 5.1, 6.0, or 6.0.1 releases must be executed from a system that is running the same operating system as the target systems. In order to perform push installations for product versions 5.1, 6.0, or 6.0.1 releases on multiple platforms, you must have a separate Deployment Server for each operating system.

The Deployment Server lets you do the following as described in Table: Deployment Server functionality.

Table: Deployment Server functionality

Feature	Description
Manage repository images	View available SFHA releases. Download maintenance and patch release images from the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website into a repository. Load the downloaded release image files from FileConnect and SORT into the repository. View and remove the release image files that are stored in the repository.
Version check systems	Discover RPMs and patches installed on your systems and informs you of the product and version installed Identify base, maintenance, and patch level upgrades to your system and to download maintenance and patch releases. Query SORT for the most recent updates.
Install or upgrade systems	Install base, maintenance, or patch level releases. Install SFHA from any supported UNIX or Linux operating system to any other supported UNIX or Linux operating system. Automatically load the script-based installer patches that apply to that release. Install or upgrade an Install Bundle that is created from the Define/Modify Install Bundles menu. Install an Install Template that is created from the Create Install Templates menu.
Define or modify Install Bundles	Define or modify Install Bundles and save them using the Deployment Server.
Create Install Templates	Discover installed components on a running system that you want to replicate on to new systems.
Update metadata	Download, load the release matrix updates, and product installer updates for systems behind a firewall. This process happens automatically when you connect the Deployment Server to the Internet, or it can be initiated manually. If the Deployment Server is not connected to the Internet, then the Update Metadata option is used to upload current metadata.
Set preferences	Define or reset program settings.
Connecting the Deployment Server to SORT using a proxy server	Use a proxy server, a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients, for connecting the Deployment Server to the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website.

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The Deployment Server is available only from the command line. The Deployment Server is not available for the web-based installer.

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Many of the example outputs used in this chapter are based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.