Cascade Software updates on Lion Server

Works for me..

I documented what I did, maybe it'll help you?

http://macmule.com/2011/08/23/managing-apple-software-update-server-across-mulitple-servers-10-5-10-6/

what a coincidence, I was actually following those instructions when I set all this up.

Ben are you able to browse to all your index files?

e.g

http://swupd.example.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

On the master I can see:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>CatalogsList</key>
    <array>
        <string>http://swupd.example.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
        <string>http://swupd.example.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
        <string>http://swupd.example.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
    </array>
    <key>PrimaryCatalog</key>
    <string>http://swupd.example.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string>
</dict>
</plist>

All are browsable.

I got exactly the same, but cant browse to any of the URL's

How have you setup your web server?

I've not really played with the web service on this server..

weird... what I do have is this catalogs.sucatalog

I dont know what I did, but i got this working!

I ended up rebooting the master server and starting and stopping the software update server!

NICE!!

Just one more question with this

I've noticed that the following catalog files do not exist

<string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

but I noticed that

<string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple</string> <string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple</string> <string>http://buildbox-syd3.xx.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple

and all the sucatalog.apple point back to apple for updates

Is there are reason why these catalog files are not in the correct format?

i.e

index-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog
index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

I've recreated the swupd.conf and plist files several times now, not sure why this is not working