Milestone Software Manager 1.5 - Manual (Page 13)

Milestone Software Manager 1.5 Administrator's Manual
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Manage servers wizard
Now that you have your software library in place and a list of remote servers, you can start updating/configuring
the selected servers. The Software Manager has a built-in, dedicated wizard for this purpose.
To carry out a remote update of all or selected remote servers:
1. In the navigation pane, select Surveillance Servers. This opens the Surveillance Servers window.
Make sure you have selected one or more servers in the list.
2. Run a test of your remote server connection (see "Test servers" on page 10). Only proceed if this test is
successful.
3. Click Manage Servers in the lower right corner. This starts the Software Management Wizard. Click
Next.
With the Software Management Wizard you can upload, uninstall and/or install software packages
easily. The wizard lets you do everything in one run, or if you prefer, upload first, then uninstall and finally
install packages. Or you can do any combination hereof by simply running the wizard as many times as
needed. Note however that (provided a run of the wizard contains more than one task) the task sequence
is always the same, first upload, then uninstall and finally install.
The wizard interface is divided into the following areas (see next page):
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A - which lets you select the software packages to upload to the selected remote servers. You
can select one or more packages or leave empty. A package must be uploaded before it can be
installed/uninstalled.
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B - which lets you select a software package to uninstall or leave empty. Selecting Delete
package from host will furthermore remove the selected package after the product has been
uninstalled (see "Important information" on page 5) (at this point the package is no longer
needed).
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C - which lets you select a software package to install or leave empty.
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D - which lets you select how to schedule the upload, uninstallation and installation tasks on the
remote servers. Select between In parallel and In sequence. If the tasks are scheduled in
parallel, the task sequence will occur simultaneously on all the remote computers and if the
tasks are scheduled sequentially, the servers will be updated one at the time.