Installing The You Patches Without Any Particular Order Using The Rug Command Fails; Mirroring More Than 400 Bundles Simultaneously Between Zenworks Linux Management Servers Located In Different Management Zones Fails; Management Server - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.2 IR2 - TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDE 08-22-2008 Troubleshooting Manual

Installing the YOU patches without any particular order using the rug command fails

Source: ZENworks Linux Management; Package and Content Management
Explanation: If you try to install the YOU patches from a catalog by using wildcard
characters in the patch name (For example, rug bin catlog_name
patch*), then you might encounter issues because of the order in which the
patches get installed.
Possible Cause: The usage of wildcard characters change the installation order of the YOU
patches. The patched numbered higher could depend on the lower numbered
patches.
Action: Do not use wildcard characters for installing a set of patches that are dependent
on each other.
Mirroring more than 400 bundles simultaneously between ZENworks Linux
Management servers located in different management zones fails
Source: ZENworks Linux Management; Package and Content Management.
Explanation: The following error message is displayed when you mirror more than 400
bundles between ZENworks Linux Management servers located in different
management zones:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
Possible Cause: The JVM heap memory is only 128 MB.
Action: Increase the JVM heap memory capacity on the local primary server:
1 In the /opt/novell/zenworks/bin/zlmmirror file, change the
2 Save the file.
3 Restart the ZENworks Linux Management service by using the following
value of -Xmx to 256 or 512 in the following line depending on the
memory capacity of your device and the load on the server:
/opt/novell/zenworks/lib/SunJava2-1.4/bin/java
$ZLMMIRROR_OPTS -Xmx128m
com.novell.zenworks.zlmmirror.ZLMMirror --temp-
args-file $ZLMMIRROR_ARGS_FILE
command:
zlm-config --restart
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