Novell IFOLDER 3.7 - SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, Administration Manual

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6.11 Updating Novell iFolder 3.7
As patches become available for iFolder 3.7 and the iFolder client, they are delivered to the OES
Patch channel. Any iFolder server or client patches or updates can be installed through ZENworks
®
Linux Management (formerly Red Carpet
®
) channels.
Š
The iFolder client checks for updates on the server whenever a user logs in, and prompts the
user to install a new update if it exists.
IMPORTANT: Ensure that you update the version configuration file with the version number
and the filename for the respective client platform. Until the version configuration file is
updated, user does not get the upgrade prompt. For more information on editing the version
configuration file, see
“Updating the Version Configuration Files” on page 95 .
Š Patches or updates to the iFolder client for Linux must be delivered through a customer-hosted
channel, so that your users have access to them. For information on how to set up a customer-
hosted channel, please see documentation for ZENworks Linux Management.
Updating the Version Configuration Files
1 Copy the filename and version number given in the patch description.
2
Open a terminal console and login as
root
user.
3 Go to the location
/opt/novell/ifolder3/lib/simias/web/update
and open the version
configuration file for the respective client.
Platform Version Configuration File
Linux unix-version.config
Each time a Linux iFolder Client authenticates to an iFolder Server, it
checks for an updated client on the server. The server uses
unix-
version.config
file to determine whether an upgrade exists for a given
linux client.
You may specify multiple distribution match tags within this file. The match
attribute is compared against the client's /
etc/issue file. A contains
search is performed in order of the distribution tags listed in the file and the
first match is used to upgrade the client. If no matches are found, the
DEFAULT
distribution is used.
Windows verion.config
If the specified version is greater than the iFolder version on the client, the
user is prompted to upgrade their ifolder application with the one specified
in the
version.config
file by
filename
.
Macintosh mac-version.config