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Re: Way to daisy chain SUS?



On 4/23/08 1:46 PM, "Don Montalvo" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:44 PM, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Don Montalvo wrote:
>>> For running Software Update Server (SUS), is there a way to set up
>>> our master OD server pull down all Apple Software Updates, and have
>>> all our replica servers pull from the primary?
>>> 
>>> master <-- pulls from Apple
>>> replica <-- pulls from master
>>> replica <-- pulls from master
>>> replica <-- pulls from master
>> 
>> On Leopard you can by editing the /etc/swupd/swupd.plist file. Look
>> for the key "metaindexURL" - which by default points to
>> swscan.apple.com.
>> 
>> You can change this to point to your upstream SUS and it should be
>> good to go.
>> 
>> Josh
> 
> Hi Josh,
> 
> Thanks for the info. I checked the /etc/swupd/swupd.plist file and
> didn't see that key. Here's what the file contains:
> 
> =====================================================
> $ cat /etc/swupd/swupd.plist
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
> ">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> <key>autoEnable</key>
> <string>0</string>
> <key>autoMirror</key>
> <string>1</string>
> <key>limitBandwidth</key>
> <string>1</string>
> <key>portToUse</key>
> <string>8088</string>
> <key>valueBandwidth</key>
> <string>100</string>
> </dict>
> </plist>
> =====================================================
> 
> Thanks again,
> Don

Try adding the key yourself. Keys that aren't recognized get ignored, so it
won't harm anything to try. Just add these lines before the closing dict
tag:

    <key>metaindexURL</key>
    <string>your.server.address</string>


--
Peter M. Bukowinski
IT ­ Sr. Support Engineer
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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