Re: [Veritas-bu] What's LiveUpdate like these days?

2015-02-11 Thread Dean
Thanks everyone. I'm meeting with the client today, so will see what they think. Cheers Dean On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Martin, Jonathan wrote: > If your clients are Windows based, I would use psexec to remotely push an > msiexec command. Msiexec includes switches to suppress the reboot i

Re: [Veritas-bu] What's LiveUpdate like these days?

2015-02-11 Thread Martin, Jonathan
If your clients are Windows based, I would use psexec to remotely push an msiexec command. Msiexec includes switches to suppress the reboot if required. I don't have the software in front of me, but I now some versions included a "silentpatch.cmd" file you could use for this purpose. -Jonathan

Re: [Veritas-bu] What's LiveUpdate like these days?

2015-02-11 Thread Neil Conner
Hi Dean, If the master is running a Unix/Linux variant, the simplest and most reliable method to update Unix/Linux clients is to run the update_clients script. Run it once to build a list of updateable clients, then edit that list as needed (you’ll want to remove the master and media servers f

Re: [Veritas-bu] What's LiveUpdate like these days?

2015-02-11 Thread Wayne T Smith
I'd retire. Cheers, Wayne On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Dean wrote: > Hello folks, > > I've never used LiveUpdate, partly because I've never had to do a mass > update of many hosts, and partly because of some negative comments about it > on this mailing list. > > But my current engagement

[Veritas-bu] What's LiveUpdate like these days?

2015-02-11 Thread Dean
Hello folks, I've never used LiveUpdate, partly because I've never had to do a mass update of many hosts, and partly because of some negative comments about it on this mailing list. But my current engagement is to update 800+ clients to NBU 7.6.1. All of the clients that are in scope for me are a