Preparing The Host Machine For Use With The Scr Tool; Review The Directory Structure; Change The Working Directory; Update The Replication Scripts - VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE CONTENT REPOSITORY TOOL GUIDE Manual

Preparing the Host Machine for Use with
the SCR Tool
To prepare the Red Hat host machine for use with the SCR Tool, perform the following steps.

Review the Directory Structure

The sub-directories created in the root directory are organized by platform type and payload.
The .pls files are stored in the directories for each platform (./aix, ./hpux, ./osx, ./redhat, ./solaris, ./suse).
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I The .pls files, which are stored in the platform sub-directories of <scr_root>, are used to
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confirm whether the patches are available. Make sure that you do not delete these files.
Directories starting with "payload" contain the platform vendor patch files and the .plp files.The
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individual payload directories will contain the patch content after the SCR downloads the content from
the Content Download Network (CDN).
The Mac OS X payload folders contain only .plp files, which embed the vendor patches.
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After extracting the vCenter SCR Tool files, a root directory is created, containing sub-directories and files.
The root directory is referred to as <scr_root> in this document.
N The default root directory is SCR-2.0.jar. If desired, you can change the name of the root directory
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because the execution of the replication scripts is based on relative paths under the <scr_root> directory.

Change the Working Directory

To prepare the SCR Tool machine for use, follow these steps:
1. From the <scr_root> directory, open a terminal session.
2. On the machine, from the root directory, run chmod -R a+x **/*. This command grants execute
permission to all of the repository application files.
3. Change the working directory to <scr_root>/bin.

Update the Replication Scripts

Replication scripts are supplied for each platform type, and are used during the download process to
replicate the patch content. These scripts contain the environment settings and java calls needed to
download the patch content for each supported platform, along with user credentials.
The naming convention of these scripts is: start_<platform>_replication.sh
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