I'm just spitballing, but SUS settings ought to be a plist or plists. Perhaps you could capture the settings on your "primary" SUS and deploy them out to your "child" SUSes.<div><br></div><div>You may need to copy the actual packages from primary to child SUSes. I'd probably try rsync first.</div>
<div><br></div><div>With the packages copied to the appropriate place, and the plists updated, you may get what you need.</div><div><br></div><div>Take this with the huge caveat that I haven't tried this. I'm just theorizing the possibility.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:02 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:NATHANIEL.LINDLEY@spps.org">NATHANIEL.LINDLEY@spps.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I have multiple Distribution points that are 10.5 OS X servers that also<br>
run SUS, problem is I can't get the remote servers to pull the updates from<br>
my master SUS. I've tried some of the suggestions without luck. Anyone<br>
else doing this ?<br>
-Nathaniel<br>
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Are the distribution points on OS X Servers? If so, the easiest solution<br>
is to create multiple instances of SUS on different network segments.<br>
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I was thinking through an automated way to move packages from an SUS to a<br>
Casper distribution point, and it's relatively easy to get the packages<br>
there. The hurdle is making them useful to Software Update, or even to<br>
Casper.<br>
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I suppose you could forego the SUS and add Apple update pkgs to your JSS<br>
and deploy them that way. This would bring on additional work as you'd<br>
need to determine the dependencies and compatibility of each update<br>
manually and scope their installation appropriately. If you use an SUS and<br>
Software Update, Apple does that work for you.<br>
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Larkin <<a href="mailto:TLARKI@kckps.org">TLARKI@kckps.org</a>> wrote:<br>
I have a self service policy that runs all approved updates off of our<br>
sus. I also download the pkg for quick critical updates and push them<br>
out via a policy.<br>
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I only have one sus and it would be awesome if I could cache those<br>
updates to the casper distribution points. Then I wouldn't have 6000<br>
clients pulling updates off one server. Then just use that one server<br>
to control it while the casper share points distribute it to their set<br>
vlans.<br>
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To: Nichols, Jared <<a href="mailto:jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu">jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu</a>><br>
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Sent: 12/11/2008 11:29:28 AM<br>
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Do your users run it via self-service?<br>
I have an "updates available" smart group that consists of all machines<br>
with<br>
>0 updates available. A self-service policy scoped to this smart group<br>
allows non-admins to run Apple updates. As silly as it may seem, this<br>
option can inflate the egos of many users. You might be surprised how<br>
far<br>
the illusion of control gets you with people.<br>
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Of course, I have a second policy scoped to the same group that runs<br>
over<br>
the weekend for anyone who didn't avail themselves of self-service.<br>
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2008/12/11 Nichols, Jared <<a href="mailto:jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu">jared.nichols@ll.mit.edu</a>><br>
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> I run our own Software Update Server so I can vette any packages<br>
first.<br>
> If it's ok, I release it in SUS and let the software update mechanism<br>
> handle it. I do force a once monthly mandatory update. Users can run<br>
it<br>
> optionally on their own or it'll pop up automatically weekly.<br>
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> j<br>
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> On 12/11/08 12:12 , "Jeff Strauss" <<a href="mailto:jstrauss@loyolahs.edu">jstrauss@loyolahs.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hey all,<br>
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> Do you guys have any procedures for deploying updates to machines? If<br>
so,<br>
> can you shed some light on how you handle updating clients?<br>
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> Thank you much!<br>
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> *Department of Educational Technology<br>
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