Hey all, I'm hoping someone here has some ideas or can help.
I have the JAMF NetSUS appliance running here and I'm using it in the "gateway" mode where it only hosts the catalog file. Generally speaking its working fine, but I'm running into an odd problem I can't figure out.
Essentially, almost every day, sometimes several times a day, I notice if I look at the updates listing on any of the branches I've created, it will show a large number of the updates with the (deprecated) label at the end. I don't mean just a few, I mean literally dozens, sometimes more than 50 of them. And, from what i can see, these are all updates that are still perfectly valid, not actually deprecated from Apple. Stuff like 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7 as a few examples.
If I go back to the Admin section and click on Sync SUS, once the sync is done (usually only a minute) all the updates show normally with no deprecated label.
Later the same day if I go back to the appliance I'll notice once again a high number of updates showing as deprecated. I can repeat the above procedure, but later again they will start showing up as deprecated.
So, is this normal behavior, and if so, why? Also, I haven't yet determined if this will affect the ability of the clients to pull the updates down, but I'm concerned it will. We're still in a testing phase, so nothing has rolled out yet with this. I just want to make sure the update process will work and not get broken by this mislabeling of the updates. I'll be testing that part out shortly, but thought I'd throw that out there to see if anyone else is seeing this behavior.
Any advice or insight greatly appreciated!