5.3 LAN CID
UtilityAnother way to provide a code server is to use a software distribution manager, such as NetView DM/2 (NVDM/2) or Tivoli Software Distribution for OS/2 (SWD).
It is beyond the scope of this book to describe the setup, configuration, and installation of such distribution managers. For complete information on how to set these up in your environment please refer to the documentation that ships with these products.
In this chapter, we consider the following types of code server:
In our experience, administrators using the latter two distribution managers are also familiar with the underlying CID techniques.
These three distribution managers share much of the underlying functionality of CID. The product response files are the same since they are independent of the software distribution manager. The installation syntaxes are slightly different in NVDM/2 (and its successor, SWD) from LCU. In fact, it is a simple matter to adapt LCU syntaxes to NVDM/2 or SWD Change File Profiles. For this reason, and because there are other good ITSO publications dealing with CID, we have not provided a complete set of NVDM/2 or SWD profiles.
However, we have considered specific issues related to NVDM/2 or SWD in Section 5.12 NVDM/2 and SWD Implementation.
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