Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 07-20-2009 Installation Manual page 107

The Policy script performs the following tasks:
Subscribes to the catalog containing the upgrade bundle.
Installs the upgrade bundle on the managed device.
7 Edit the script so that
Upgrade Bundles and
(Step 7 on page 106).
8 Click Next to display the Summary page, then click Next to display the Policy Assignments
page.
9 Click Add to display the Select Assignments dialog box, browse to and select the devices to
which you want to assign the Remote Execute policy, then click OK.
10 Click Next to display the Policy Schedule page.
11 In the Schedule Type drop-down list, select Date Specific, specify a start date and time to apply
the policy, then click Next to display the Policy Groups page.
NOTE: If you want to verify the upgrade immediately, set the start date to today and the start
time to 12 a.m. The Remote Execute policy is executed at the next scheduled refresh for the
devices. Alternately, you can manually refresh the devices.
12 Click Next to display the Finish page, then click Finish.
The Remote Execute policy is enforced as scheduled, after the managed devices' next
scheduled refresh. If the time you specified in
the policy is enforced on the next refresh.
IMPORTANT: It takes approximately five minutes for the upgrade bundle to be installed and
for the upgrade process to be performed. Do not perform any rug commands such as
during the upgrade process. Executing rug commands during the upgrade process might cause
the process to fail.
After the upgrade completes, you can verify that the upgrade was successful by executing the
command or refer to
rug ping
zmd is 7.3.0. If you perform the
message. You can recover by stopping and restarting zmd. The
contain the
"Starting ZENworks Management Daemon..."
Upgrading SLES 10 or SLED 10 Managed Devices by Using an Upgrade Bundle
Perform the following steps on the SLES 10 or SLED 10 managed device:
1 Ensure that the agent is registered to the ZENworks Linux Management server. For more
information on how to register devices, see
Linux Management Administration
2 Execute the
/usr/bin/rug sub catalog_name
catalog assigned to the managed device.
3 Execute the
/usr/bin/rug bin -y upgrade_bundle_name
upgrade_bundle_name is the upgrade bundle in the catalog assigned to the managed device.
IMPORTANT: It takes approximately five minutes for the upgrade bundle to be installed and
for the upgrade process to be performed. Do not perform any rug commands such as
during the upgrade process. Executing rug commands during the upgrade process might cause
the process to fail.
is the catalog you created in
catalog_name
is the bundle that you specified while creating the catalog
bundle
Step 11
. The upgrade was successful if the version of
upgrade.log
command prematurely, you receive an exception
rug ping
"Registering
Guide.
Upgrading to ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management with IR1 107
Creating Catalogs for
occurs before the next scheduled refresh,
/tmp/zmd/upgrade.log
message in the last line.
Devices" in the Novell ZENworks 7.3
command, where catalog_name is the
command, where
rug ref
must
rug ref