What does local source of updates really mean?
HI,
I have a SunUC proxy server that gets its updates directly from Sun updates web site and several SunUC clients configured to have my SunUC proxy server as source of updates.
My understanding from reading the available documentation is that SunUC clients should get their updates from the local SunUC proxy if they were configured so.
However, I am getting the impression that my SunUC clients are just using my SunUC proxy server as internet proxy and getting their updates also directly from Sun updates web site. I know that my SunUC clients are not going directly to Sun updates web site because they are in our intranet behind a firewall server and they don't show up in the firewall log.
Let me explain the situation:
I do a smpatch update on my SunUC proxy server manually once on the first Friday of the month and have the cllients doing a smpatch update weekly on Saturdays via cron. My SunUC is not configured to do the automatic daily updates. This way my SunUC clients would try to do an smpatch update on Saturdays it would fail except on the Saturaday after the Friday when SunUC proxy server was updated.
However, I noticed that my SunUC clients are being patched more than once a month. It looks like that my SunUC proxy is downloading new updates every time ones are available on Sun updates web site and make it available to the SunUC clients. And this should not be possible because I disable the automatic daily updates on my SunUC proxy server.
I wonder if I am missing something in terms of configuring SunUC proxy server or clients in terms of local source of updates or I misread the documentation.
My SunUC proxy server and clients are all running Solaris 10 05/03 and Sun Update Manager 1.0
