VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE CONTENT REPOSITORY TOOL GUIDE Manual page 15

<SCR_output_folder>
<platform>
<architecture> (contains .pls files)
<payload>
<platform>
<architecture> (contains patch content files, such as .plp, .zip, .rpm, .htm, .jar, .etc)
-platform <platform_name> -dist <distribution>
-arch <architecture1>,<architecture2>
The
be downloaded. For Linux platforms (Red Hat, SUSE), the -dist parameter is also
required.
The -arch parameter value must include one or more valid architecture strings for
the specified platform or platform/distribution combination. Multiple architectures
must be comma-delimited with no spaces.
Valid parameter values for
Table 4-1. Supported Platforms, Distributions, and Architectures
platform
AIX
HP_UX
OSX
LINUX
LINUX
SOLARIS
-thirdparty -user <username> -pwd <encrypted password>
For Red Hat and Solaris platforms, which require third-party credentials when downloading
subscription patch content directly from the OS vendor, the -thirdparty, -user, and -pwd
parameters must be supplied. The -user parameter is always required for Red Hat, and is
only required for Solaris when the patch is specifically only available with subscription to
SunSolve.
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Java command line in the replication scripts that require third-party credentials.
When processing platforms whose vendors require subscription credentials, the -pwd
parameter expects an encrypted password. To encrypt a password, a script is provided, and
is included in <scr_root>/bin. this file is named pwd_encryptor.sh.
The encryption script accepts a clear text password, and then returns a 32-bit character
encrypted string to be used as the argument to the -pwd parameter. Use the encrypted
password returned from the password encryptor tool, as described in the previous step.
-extractOSX <true|false>
The -extractOSX parameter specifies that embedded vendor patch files (*.dmg) should be
extracted from the corresponding .plp files when executed for the Mac OS X platform. This
parameter has no effect when used with any other platform.
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and parameters are required to specify the patch content to
-platform -arch
-platform
dist
REDHAT
SUSE
The -thirdparty parameter will always accompany the -user and -pwd on the
Preparing the Host Machine for Use with the SCR Tool
, , and are listed below.
-dist -arch
arch
POWERPC
PA_RISC,ITANIUM
X86,PPC
X86,X86_64
X86,X86_64
X86,SPARC
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