On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:29:25PM -0500, David Rock wrote:
> * Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org> [2005-10-13 15:41]:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:46:53PM -0400, Wayne T Smith wrote:
> > > I hope I'm missing something.  If not, maybe it's time for customers to 
> > > demand better delivery of the product (such as a single self-installing 
> > > executable that installs and/or updates in one fell swoop)?
> > 
> > My preference would to have a running client check for an update on the
> > master server before it starts a backup.  If an update is available,
> > automatically download it and restart the backup, all without requiring
> > a client reboot.  This would mean that the NetBackup admin would only
> > need to keep the master server up to date and everything else gets done
> > automatically.  None of this manually visiting tens or hundreds of
> > clients installing new updates.
> 
> There would be some change control issues with something like this. I'm
> not sure large scale unmanned software pushes is a good idea in all
> cases. If you did have this capability, it should be configurable. 

Absolutely.  This should/could be a setting in bp.conf as to whether or
not the host should be a candidate for auto-updating.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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