Specify the higher system to which the relay system or client is to be connected. The Specify Connection Destination dialog box is displayed when Relay System or Client is being installed.

You can change this connection destination during setup.

Figure 3-12 Specify Connection Destination dialog box

Product type

Specify either Software Distribution Manager, Software Distribution Client (relay system) or Software Distribution SubManager as the product type of the higher system to which the relay system or client is to be connected. The default is Software Distribution Manager.

Connection destination

The available settings for a relay system differ from those for a client.

For a relay system

Specify the name of the higher system to which the relay system connects, expressed as a node identification key used by the higher system (Host name or IP address). The default is None. A local host name cannot be specified for the connection destination.

For a client

Specify the host name or IP address of the connection destination for the client. The default is None. If the client's connection destination is undetermined, or to use the client as an offline machine for inventory management, specify ?. A client with ? specified for Connection destination supports only the Local System Viewer and the system monitoring facility. To use other facilities, the client must connect to a higher system.

To create a PC environment that is to be the source of a hard disk copying operation for installation of JP1/Software Distribution Client using the pre-installation facility, specify * as the connection destination, in which case the client will not actually operate.

If you specify any value other than * as the connection destination and you use the host ID, only the last client is recognized during automatic registration of the system configuration; no other clients will be recognized.

If you specified a connection destination once and are now installing the client by overwriting the setting, you can specify ?, but you cannot specify *. To specify *, you must either uninstall the client and then install it again, or change the connection destination to * during setup and then install the client again.