Re: [cobalt-users] Re: Cube3 OS Upgrade to 6.4 Fails

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> it would be a valuable addition to BlueLinQ to be able to
> stage an update ... Stage 1 is when BlueLinQ advises me that an 
> update is available. Stage 2 would be to initiate the download, 
> and Stage 3 would be to actually install it.  There could be an
> extra BlueLinQ "preference" which would control whether Stage 3
> happened automatically after Stage 2 or if manual intervention was
> required.

You may want to look into the Control Station. It works like a BlueLinQ 
server itself, and allows you to "push" a package to managed appliances 
immediately or via a scheduler.

So it can grab copies of PKGs as they become available on the Sun 
Cobalt "master" BlueLinQ server and notify you they are there.  You can 
then initiate a push to a test platform.  Once you've validated that 
the PKG is good, push it out to the rest of the boxes with a 
mouseclick. It will send email when it's done.

With 10 systems, you're kind of on the cusp of it being useful for 
the "cost" of keeping a separate RaQ4r running the Control Station 
payload.  We're considering giving away a "limited" copy of the 
software, though, that would be free for up to 25 or 30 appliances; 
beyond that, you'd have to pay for a "real" unit...  please send 
feedback to me if you'd be interested in a limited version, and I'll 
forward it to the Control Station Product Manager.

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Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.