VMware VCENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER 5.3 - SOFTWARE CONTENT REPOSITORY TOOL GUIDE, vCenter Configuration Manager 5.3 User Manual
vCenter Configuration Manager
Software Content Repository Tool Guide
vCenter Configuration Manager 5.3
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Contents
About This Book 5
About the Software Content Repository Tool 7
How It Works 7
What to Do First 8
Prerequisites for the SCR Tool 9
Host Machine andSoftware 9
User Credentials for Downloads 10
Supported Agent Machines 10
Installing the SCR Tool 11
Install the Repository Software 11
Download the Java Runtime Environment 11
Test the Java Runtime Environment Installation 11
Download and Install the Java Cryptography Extension (optional) 12
Preparing the Host Machine for Use with the SCR Tool 13
Review the Directory Structure 13
Change the Working Directory 13
Update the Replication Scripts 13
Connect the VCM-Managed Machines to the SCRTool 16
Set Logging Levels and Output File Names 16
Using the SCR Tool 19
Download the Patch Content 19
How to Schedule Downloads 19
Maintaining the Software Content Repository 20
Troubleshooting 21
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About This Book
This guide, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager Software Content Repository Tool Guide, provides
procedures for:
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Preparing for the installation of all components and tools
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Installing all components and tools
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Getting started with all components and tools
Intended Audience
This document contains information intended for system administration personnel tasked with managing
users and resources within their network, and performing system maintenance.
To use the information in this book effectively, you need to have a basic understanding of how to
configure network resources. You also need to fully understand your network’s topology and resource
naming conventions.
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Software Content Repository Tool Documentation
The Software Content Repository Tool documentation consists of this document. Related documents
include the VCMHardware and Software Requirements Guide, online Help, and Release Notes.
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About the Software Content Repository
Tool
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The Software Content Repository (SCR) Tool is a standalone Java client software application that builds a
software content repository of UNIX/Linux patches, and then provides automated downloading of
operating system (OS) vendor patch content to the repository.
How It Works
The SCR Tool client downloads content used to patch your UNIX/Linux machines. These files include the
patch signature files (.pls), deploy package files (.plp) (not currently used), and OS vendor patch content
files (.rpm, .gz, .tar, .zip) used in the patching background processes.
As shown in the following diagram, the SCR Tool downloads the UNIX/Linux patch content. Using VCM
on another Collector machine, you can then update the VCM-managed (Agent) machines using the VCM
Patching UNIX/Linux patching capability.
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