Generate LiveUpdate Policies that have many GUP Subnets
I made a little tool that will create a new LU policy using a CSV or text file as the input. The tool can use an existing LU policy as a template. This will allow you to easily add new Explicit GUP settings or new Multiple GUP settings to an existing LU policy.
Here are the steps to use the tool:
- Download and run tool below.
- Create a text file (see below for details).
- (optional) If you want to use an existing LU policy as a template then export the existing file from SEPM.
- Run the CreateGUPpolicy.exe tool.
- Type in the policy name.
- Chose the type of GUP to add: Explicit or Multiple
- Browse to the text file.
- (optional) If you want to use an existing LU policy as a template then enable the template checkbox and browse to the policy file exported from SEPM.
- Click the “Create Policy” button and the tool will create a new LU policy that can be imported into SEPM.
For Explicit GUP settings: The text file must contain two columns. The first is for the client’s subnet and the second is for the GUP’s subnet. See attached sample.
For Multiple GUP settings: The text file must contain one column containing the IP address of the client you want to be a GUP. See attached sample.
The tool requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or higher. This tool also requires the ‘Microsoft Visual J#® 2.0 Redistributable’.
You can download ‘Microsoft Visual J#® 2.0 Redistributable’ from here:
32bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18084
64bit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15468
Legal: This tool is not officially supported by Symantec and should be tested prior to use. Symantec shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with your use of or reliance of this tool.
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This might help solve lot of my problems.
Vikram Kumar
Symantec Consultant
The most helpful part of entire Symantec connect is the Search button..do use it.
Nice tool, may be it help to all of users which required the multipule gup configuarion.
Regards
Sumit G.
Really good one Elisha,
Thanks for sharing
Thank& Regards,
Ambesh
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Thanks for the updated version.
Vikram Kumar
Symantec Consultant
The most helpful part of entire Symantec connect is the Search button..do use it.
Thank you for this tool.
One question, I am trying to populate, I am trying to populate the following screen in SEPM: Configure Explicit Group Update Providers Under Group Update Proviers and "Explicit Group Update Providers for roaming clients.
The question I have is, traditionally we have provided a subnet and then the actual ip address of the GUP in this table and not a GUP Subnet. Using this tool, if I chose "Add Explicit GUP Subnets" will it be ok to have an IP address in GUP Subnet column or does it have to have an subnet of where the actual gup resides in?
Yes, it is ok to use any IP address in the GUP's subnet. In fact you can simply use the IP address of the GUP as the subnet address if you want.
GUP mapping type comes up as subnet when using the tool, you are saying it doesn't matter if it's subnet or IP address as mapping type if the goal is to use the IP address? Is there a way to export out of the tool, so that the policy shows GUP mapping type as IP?
There is a subtle difference between using an IP address and using a subnet. The key difference is that if you use the IP address option then the clients will only try to go to that one GUP and not other GUPs on that subnet. For most cases using the subnet is better.
No The tool will always export a policy that uses the GUPs subnet, since this is generally a better option to use.
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