Chapter 7 Working With Software Center - Cisco CISCOWORKS COMMON SERVICES 3.0 User Manual

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Working With Software Center
Software Center helps you to check for software and device support updates,
download them to their server file system along with the related dependent
packages, and install the device updates.
Software Center allows you to look for software and device updates from
Cisco.com, and download them to a server location. You can install the updates
from this location. In the case of device updates, Software Center helps you to
install the updates using a web based user interface, wherever possible.
Most of the device family-based packages can be installed directly from the web
interface while the device support packages such as IDU have to be installed
based on the installation instructions documented in the respective readme files.
You may also uninstall a device support package. Software Center does not
support uninstallation of software updates.
To backup what is installed on the server, Software Center maintains a package
and device map in the installed packages directory of the respective applications.
The package map is a list of all device packages installed on the server and device
map is a list of all the supported devices on the server.
Software Center also provides a Command Line Interface to download device
updates and software updates, and install or uninstall device packages.
For downloads from Cisco.com to work, you should have access to Cisco.com.
For details on configuring Cisco.com credentials, See "Setting up Cisco.com User
Account" section on page 3-44.
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