B.5 Deploying the Linux RPMs

Uses the RPM command line argument only as a guide to getting the proper component installed. The DeployAgents tool determines Novell Open Enterprise Server version and architecture, and installs the proper i586 or x86_64 RPM version from the software/sles10 or software/sles11 folder as required by the server.

Uses PowerShell to hide the password from plain text view, but does not encrypt the password in memory. It also uses a User-based environment variable, and cleans up the password as soon as it finished.

Uses PowerShell to parse the agent.dat or servernames.txt file. The agent.dat file is XML-based, and is converted to a plain text list of servers named servernames.txt. If an existing servernames.txt file exists, the parser looks for leading and trailing spaces, and makes a copy of the original file in servernames.txt.original.

Uses the /etc/SuSE-release and /etc/novell-release files from the server to get Novell Open Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server version information.

Creates a temporary directory in /tmp/ccsoftware on the server as a local software repository, which is cleaned up at the end of the process.

Uses the component’s default installation paths and configuration paths. For example, the configuration directory would follow this pattern: /etc/opt/novell/filereporter/agent/config

Assumes that the root or provided administrative user account shares the same password across all servers in the servernames.txt file.