Just because I was home sick with nothing better to do, I decided to do an install of 8.2.1 on my laptop. I've been running 7.3.1 for a year or so on an xserve running OS 10.6 server. I haven't installed it since my jamf quick start or whatever it was, so I figured why not.
First I did a lion (client) install/upgrade which worked just fine. It upgraded to 10.7 and no complaints so far. I then went ahead and tried to install the JSS using the 8.2.1 pkg installer. It failed the pre-installation check because:
- There was no java installed.
- MySQL Enterprise wasn't installed (and never was on this 10.6.8 client machine)
#1 was fixed with the Java for Lion download from Apple.
#2 was fixed by downloading the MySQL community edition
After creating the user and database, all was working. Aside from having to install Java, MySQL and create the MySQL User/Database, it was a quick and painless install. It took all of 20 minutes or so including figuring out how to install MySQL.
I added a machine, a package and poked around in the databases a bit using Sequel Pro and it all seems to appear as I would expect. Anyone know why the "MySQL Enterprise" is listed as a requirement vs. just the "MySQL community" edition? Is it for support reasons or a functional issue? If I'm correct, I don't think Lion Server comes with MySQL (Postgres now?) anymore.
After just a few minutes spent with it, the 8.2.1 upgrade seems nice. There is a lot of helpful info in there and things just seem more refined. I'm looking forward to upgrading my production server with it after doing some more testing. I'm assuming the upgrade on the 10.6.x server edition will be even easier.
