Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Description and Planning Guide
As an alternative to the node identification key, you can use host IDs to manage a network. You manage a network using host IDs by specifying appropriate settings during setup of the central manager. All relay systems and clients under the central manager can then be managed by using the host IDs.
Use of host IDs offers the following advantages:
A host ID is generated for a client when the client is installed, and is stored in a host ID management file. If a client already has a host ID management file when the client is re-installed, a new host ID is not generated.
A generated host ID is registered in the higher systems. To enable registration, in the Software Distribution Manager Setup dialog box, choose the ID Key for Operations page, and then select Yes for Use host IDs.
The host ID is registered automatically in higher systems as shown in the following figure.
The following table shows the times at which host IDs are registered automatically in the next-higher system, depending on the settings for automatic registration of system configuration information.
Table 6-1 Times at which host IDs are registered automatically in the next-higher system
Is system configuration information registered automatically? | Automatic registration times |
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Yes |
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No | When connection is established with a higher system (if the host ID has not been registered in that higher system, or after the host ID has been changed) |
In a system in which multiple managing servers are configured in a hierarchy, if you wish to upgrade a JP1/Software Distribution Manager that does not support host IDs and then use host IDs, after you upgrade the higher JP1/Software Distribution Manager you must then upgrade the lower JP1/Software Distribution Managers.
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