1 Introduction
1.1 Concepts
Update Management is based on a database concept where the GUIs and
services communicate exclusively via the database:
1. The GUIs are used to define jobs for the services and write these jobs
to the database.
2. The services retrieve their jobs from the database, process these in the
background and write the results to the database.
3. The GUIs then display the results from the database.
The tasks performed by the various services are described below:
The Inventory Service reads the inventories of the PRIMERGY servers and
writes the results to the database. (The inventory contains the entire hard-
ware and software configuration data of a PRIMERGY server.)
The Download Service downloads updates from the download server into
the repository.
In addition to the download via the Download Service, you can also
import updates from the ServerView-Update DVD to the repository
using the Repository Manager
For the initial update (Update Manager Express) of your PRIMERGY
server, load the updates from the ServerView Update DVD first
because otherwise this process may take a very long time to complete
due to the large volume of data. Since the DVD, which is published
almost monthly, may not contain the latest updates, you should then
download the latest updates using the Download Service.
10 ServerView Update Management
