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Deploying Software and Updates
Deploying update packages with pull and replication tasks
Task
For option definitions, click ? on the page displaying the options.
1
Go to Configuration | Server Settings, select Global Updating, then click Edit at the
bottom of the page.
Figure 25: Edit Global Updating page
2
On the Edit Global Updating page, select Enabled next to Status.
3
Edit the Randomization interval, if desired. The default is 20 minutes.
Each client update occurs at a randomly selected time within the randomization interval,
which helps distribute network load. For example, if you update 1000 clients using the
default randomization interval of 20 minutes, roughly 50 clients update each minute during
the interval, lowering the load on your network and on your server. Without the
randomization, all 1000 clients would try to update simultaneously.
4
Next to Packages types, select which packages initiate an update.
Global updating initiates an update only if new packages for the components specified here
are checked in to the master repository or moved to another branch. Select these
components carefully.
5
When finished, click Save.
Once enabled, global updating initiates an update the next time you check in any of the
selected packages or move them from to another branch.
NOTE:
Be sure to run a Pull Now task and schedule a recurring Repository Pull server task,
when you are ready for the automatic updating to begin.
Deploying update packages with pull and replication
tasks
Use these tasks to implement a task-based updating strategy once you have created your
repository infrastructure. You must rely on these tasks if you are not using global updating in
your environment.
Before you begin
Make sure repositories are created and in locations available to managed systems.
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