A.11 Configuring Online Update

Online Update is used to get patches and updates for the Appliance.

A.11.1 Registering for Online Updates

Before you can receive online updates, you must register with either a local Subscription Management Tool (SMT) or Micro Focus Customer Center. The Register Online Update Service dialog appears when the Appliance is not registered with an update service. For example, the first time the Online Update icon is clicked or when a services has been de-registered.

Registering Using a Local SMT

  1. Select Local SMT in the Register Online Update Service dialog.

  2. Specify the Hostname of the server from where you want the Appliance to download software updates.

  3. (Optional) Specify a path to the SSL certificate for encrypting communications with the server in SSL cert URL.

  4. (Optonal) Specify a Namespace path to enable the client to use the staging group. Do not specify any vale if you want to use the default production repositories.

  5. Click Register.

Registering Using Micro Focus Customer Center

  1. Select Micro Focus Customer Center in the Register Online Update Service dialog.

  2. Enter your Email address and Activation key to register.

  3. (Optional) You can share information with Micro Focus Customer Center by selecting Hardware Profile and/or Optional Information in the Allow Data send field. Selecting Hardware Profile shares your hardware information. Selecting Optional Information shares information such as host type, product version, release, architecture, timezone, and processor.

  4. Click Register.

A.11.2 Scheduling the Online-Update-Check

Once you are register for online updates, you need to set a schedule for the updates to be downloaded. To set an update schedule:

  1. Click the Schedule drop-down and select Manual, Daily, Weekly, or Monthy. If you select Manual, the appliance immediately downloads all available patches. If you select Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, select All needed Patches or Security Patches Only to set the level of patches to apply.

  2. (Optional) Specify whether to Automatically agree with all license agreements and Automatically install all interactive patches.

Important things to know when scheduling the online updates

  • Within 15 minutes after you apply a recurring schedule (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly), the Appliance downloads and install the level of patches you have chosen. If you change the scheduled interval, the Appliance once again downloads the level of patches after 15 minutes.

  • The schedule you set can dynamically change if the update check can’t happen at the schedule time for any reason. The system then waits and checks as soon as it can. The Appliance then changes to schedule to be when it was able to run the online update check.