Topic: Updates & blades

[David Woolley]

Hi

I've read the e-smith.org homepage article about the current mandatory security update, but am unsure of the relationship between these updates and "blades".  Are they the same animal?

The update offered to my 5.5 server today via the blades panel is update 1.  Update 2 is not available via this route.

The homepage suggests a command line approach to installing update 2.

Must I use the command line that I am unfamiliar with?  For such a critical update notification it seems to me that the blades approach would achieve faster, wider and less error prone installation throughout our servers.  

Please correct my mistakes, but should I

1. download the advertised rpms via ftp using my client workstation.
2. push these files to my user home folder on the e-smith (again from the client)
3. log in to e-smith locally and do....
"To install the update, download the appropriate RPMS into a directory on your SME Server and run the following commands as root

    rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm
    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

4. please, where in these commands do I enter the path to the downloaded update files.


Thanks for your help

David

[Bill Talcott]

The "rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm" command installs all .rpm files in the current directory (*.rpm). You want to run that from the directory with the update files... I think there are install.sh scripts in the update dirs that will run the commands for you too.

If you install the "Update System" panel via the command line, then you can install RPMs saved on your workstation to the SME via the Server Manager. If you're going to install two or more RPMs (updates, addons, etc.), then to me installing Update System first and using that is much easier and faster.

As for the Blades, I'm not sure how the whole system works. If it takes time, which they don't have, to assemble them from RPMs or what. Some people have said that the ServiceLink customers have access to the update Blades faster. I dunno, all speculation...

[David Woolley]

Thanks again, Bill.  I'll give that a go thisevening when I get home

all the best

David

[AJ]

Having read the User Manual, it would seem to suggest that the Blades panel is now only available to registered users, which I am assuming means people who have paid for the ServiceLink version.

I'm prefectly happy to be wrong, but I haven't seen any Blades appear in that panel since the Update 1 Blade.

[David Woolley]

I have today installed the update2 to v5.5. and also the update system component of the SME server-manager interface.  For a newbie like me, this feels like an achievement

I would like to say "thank you" to the forum, Bill & AJ for helping me and also for pointing me to the "Update System" package from

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/

Two other Linux commands were essential

man rpm  was a help in finding switches for the install command line.

cd ~{username} was a help in finding the .rpm files I had copied to the SME from my workstation

I'm sorry that Mitel are only making the update blades available to service link customers, because when a security hole is found it is in everyone's interest to close it with all possible speed.

Thanks again

David