Configuring a Group Update Provider
| Article:HOWTO55184 | | | Created: 2011-06-29 | | | Updated: 2011-12-17 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO55184 |
You configure a Group Update Provider by specifying settings in the LiveUpdate Settings policy.
You can configure the LiveUpdate Settings policy so that clients only get updates from the Group Update Provider and never from the server. You can specify when clients must bypass the Group Update Provider. You can configure settings for downloading and storing content updates on the Group Update Provider computer. You can also configure the type of Group Update Provider.
You can configure the maximum amount of time that clients try to download updates from a Group Update Provider before they try to get updates from their default management server. If you set this time to 15 minutes, this means that the client computer must try to download continuously for 15 minutes with no success.
You can configure only one single Group Update Provider per LiveUpdate Settings policy per group. To create a single Group Update Provider for multiple sites, you must create one group per site, and one LiveUpdate Settings policy per site.
You can configure multiple Group Update Providers by specifying criteria in the LiveUpdate Settings policy. Clients use the criteria to determine if they qualify to act as a Group Update Provider.
To configure a Group Update Provider
On the LiveUpdate Settings tab, right-click the policy that you want and then click Edit.
In the LiveUpdate Settings Policy window, click Server Settings.
Under Internal or External LiveUpdate Server, check Use the default management server.
Do not check Use a LiveUpdate server. The Group Update Provider that you configure acts as the default LiveUpdate server.
Under Group Update Provider, check Use a Group Update Provider.
Do one of the following tasks:
Follow the steps in To configure a single Group Update Provider.
Follow the steps in To configure multiple Group Update Providers.
In the Group Update Provider dialog box, configure the options to control how content is downloaded and stored on the Group Update Provider computer.
To configure a single Group Update Provider
In the Group Update Provider dialog box, under Group Update Provider Selection for Client, click Single Group Update Provider IP address or host name.
In the Single Group Update Provider IP address or host name box, type the IP address or host name of the client computer that acts as the single Group Update Provider.
Click Help for information about the IP address or host name.
Return to the procedure to configure a Group Update Provider.
To configure multiple Group Update Providers
In the Group Update Provider dialog box, under Group Update Provider Selection for Client, click Multiple Group Update Providers.
In the Group Update Provider List dialog box, select the tree node Group Update Provider.
In the Specify Group Update Provider Rule Criteria dialog box, in the Check drop-down list, select one of the following options:
If you selected Computer IP Address or Host Name or Registry Keys, click Add.
Type or select the IP address or host name, Windows registry key, or operating system information.
Click Help for information on configuring rules.
See About configuring rules for multiple Group Update Providers.
Click OK until you return to the Group Update Provider List dialog box, where you can optionally add more rule sets.
Type a Group Update Provider IP address or host name in the Specify the host name or IP address of a Group Update Provider on a different subnet to be used, if Group Update Providers on the local subnet are unavailable text box.
Return to the procedure to configure a Group Update Provider.
See Configuring Group Update Providers to distribute content
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