Cascade Software updates on Lion Server

[abz_mungul]

Hi

I'm trying to set this up and following the following instructions

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3765

But when ever I run the update on the replica box i get a message saying that it can't find the catalog files.

Has any successfully set this up?

Thanks

[bentoms]

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-...

[abz_mungul]

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

[bentoms]

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.

[abz_mungul]

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

How have you setup your web server?

[bentoms]

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

[abz_mungul]

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

[abz_mungul]

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!!

[abz_mungul]

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