The Package window shows a list of software programs that have been authorized for installation. The software that is displayed depends on the client's connection destination (higher system). You select and install desired software from this list.

Figure 11-9 Package window

The icon to the left of a package's name indicates the type of the package:

• : Normal package
• : Differing-components package

When a package is installed with Package Setup Manager, the results are reported to the higher system. For a successfully installed package, a green circle is displayed on the package icon; for a package that was not installed successfully, a red X is displayed on the package icon. If installation is performed without using Package Setup Manager, a blue circle is displayed on the package icon. This occurs, for example, when a package is installed automatically by a normal remote installation job or when it is installed locally by the client user.

On a client whose version is 8-00 or newer, the icon for a differing-components package is displayed, but the package cannot be installed.

For details about operations that can be performed using the Package window, see 11.4.2 Installing from Package Setup Manager.

The Installed Software window shows a list of software programs that have been installed on the client, and includes both software installed using JP1/Software Distribution and software that was installed locally.

Figure 11-10 Installed Software window

For details about what is displayed on the Installed Software window, see 11.4.3 Confirming the status of software installation.

The two windows that are displayed in the Package Setup Manager window are interlinked. When a package is installed using Package Setup Manager, the green circle is displayed for the icon in the Package window, and additional information about the software is added in the Installed Software window.

When software displayed on the Package window is installed locally, the resulting information is displayed on the Installed Software window, and the icon on the Package window is changed to the blue circle.

• If the installation drive is specified with a number, the system displays the drive number as is, without converting it to the corresponding drive name.
• If a package belongs to multiple ID groups, it may be displayed multiple times in the Package window.
• If connection destination servers are changed in Setup, you can specify in Setup whether or not the package information associated with the previous connection destination server is to be deleted. In a system in which connection destination servers change frequently, the accumulation of package information can use up hard disk space, so you should delete package information that is associated with servers to which a client is no longer connected.
• If file transfer from a connection destination is suspended, the package cannot be installed. A red X is displayed for the package icon of the package that could not be installed. Once file transfer is resumed, the package can be installed.
• If an error occurs during an overwrite installation of a package, how the package (software) to be overwritten is displayed on Package Setup Manager depends on the setup setting that was in effect when the error occurred.
  If the Maintain the installation history in case an error occurs during installation of the package check box was not selected (default) on the Installation Options page during setup, after the error occurs, the package to be overwritten is treated as not being installed. In contrast, if the check box was selected, after the error occurs, the package is treated as being installed.
  
• If a client is set up to automatically report updated inventory information to the managing server and to use WUA to detect patch information, the execution may take a long time in the following cases:
  
  • When Package Setup Manager is started
  • When View and then Refresh are chosen in the Package window
  • When a package displayed in the Package window is manually installed
  • When a package displayed in the Package window is manually installed and the execution results are reported to the system administrator
  • When a package displayed in the Package window is automatically installed
  • When a package displayed in the Package window is deleted
  • When Execute and then Collect Software Information and Update are chosen in the Installed software window, and then Package Setup Manager is terminated