Downloading Images From The Administration Server - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE 11 - SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT TOOL GUIDE 10-02-2009 Manual

6.5 Downloading Images from the
After the Branch Server is up and running, you can run the possyncimages.pl
script to download the Point of Service images that have been created from the Admin-
istration Server to the /srv/tftpboot directories on the Branch Server.
1 Verify the scPosImage object settings for the Point of Service images in the
2 Run possyncimages.pl at the Branch Server console to download the Point
3 Verify the result of the possyncimages.pl command by checking the contents
For more information on the Administration and Branch Server directory structure, see
Appendix C, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service Files and Directory Structure
(page 219).
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Administration Server
/srv/tftpboot/image directory.
Create the scPosImage objects and set the scPosImageVersion attribute
to Active before you boot the Point of Service terminals, so you can keep track
of the most recent image version before the images are copied. Manually remove
old images from the Administration Server to avoid pulling the same image twice.
For more information on setting the scPosImageVersion attribute to
Active, see Section 7.4.7, "Activating Images" (page 86).
of Service images.
The possyncimages.pl script can also be used to update Point of Service
images on the Branch Server. However, to implement image version changes,
you should also activate the version changes inside the corresponding
scPosImage objects in the LDAP directory, keeping track of the most recent
image versions and manually removing old images from the Administration
Server. This will help to avoid pulling the same image twice.
of the following Branch Server directories:
• /srv/tftpboot/boot
• /srv/tftpboot/image