Selecting A Package For Distribution - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 19: Distributing Packages Using Configuration Manager Web Console
Distributing Packages Using the Configuration Manager Web Console
Table 19-3 • Configuration Manager Web Console Package Distribution Steps
# Step
2 Setting Package
Configuration Options
3 Saving the Package on the
Configuration Manager
Server

Selecting a Package for Distribution

To select a package for distribution from Configuration Manager Web Console using Configuration Manager
Distribution, perform the following steps.
Task: To distribute a new package:
1. Launch Configuration Manager Web Console. The Configuration Manager Web Console Home Page
opens.
2. Click Distribute a New Package. The Distribute Package page opens, listing all of the Windows Installer
( ) packages in the open Application Catalog.
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3. Click the radio button next to the Application Name of the package that you want to distribute. Only one
package can be selected at a time.
4. Click Distribute. The PDF Selection page opens.
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Description
In the Package Configuration area of Configuration Manager Web Console,
you specify the following distribution configuration fields that the
Configuration Manager Server utilizes in the distribution of the package.
•
Setting Package Settings
package, along with data source, data access, distribution settings,
and reporting information.
•
Setting Access Accounts
allowed to distribute this particular package.
•
Setting Distribution Points
distribution points for this particular package. A Distribution Point is a
site system role that stores software package files so clients can
access them during the software distribution process.
•
Setting Programs Options—Specify programs (that will run on clients)
to execute the distribution of the application, and the types of clients
on which the program can run (defined using directories, operating
system versions, etc.).
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receive this package, and specify when the package will be available
for distribution and whether it is optional or mandatory.
Save the package on the Configuration Manager Server. You can then view
the status of the package by following the instructions in
of a Distributed Package.
Options—General information about the
Options—Specify which administrators are
Options—Specify which servers may act as
Options—Identify the collection of users to
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