If you have a network of iSeries™ servers that you want to keep
at the same fix level, find out how simple your servers are to manage when
you use the Compare and Update wizard. Find out how to install your fixes
on remote systems with iSeries Navigator.
After you have received your fixes, you can use iSeries Navigator to
distribute your fixes to other servers in your network. In the past, object
distribution and Systems Network Architecture distribution services (SNADS)
were the choices when you wanted to send objects. If you are in a TCP/IP environment,
you can now use the iSeries Navigator graphical
interface function of Management Central to send and distribute your fixes.
To understand how a network is set up, see the following list for a description
of the different roles. A single system can assume more than one role. For
example, the same system can be the central system, the source system, and
a model system.
- Central system
- Central system directs and tracks activity in your environment. It has
an active iSeries Access
connection from your graphical client, and it is currently selected as the
central system. Its server and inventory provide your view of the Management
Central tasks and endpoints.
- Endpoint systems
- Endpoint systems are the systems that you are managing in your environment.
The endpoint systems are controlled by the central system. The endpoint systems
were discovered or created on your central system.
- Source system
- This is the system from which items are sent when performing a task. The
source system is the source of the item that is sent. This is the system that
you have selected to be the repository for the save files for the fixes that
you will distribute to your other servers.
- Target system
- This is the system to which items are sent when performing a task. The
target system is the destination of the item that is sent.
- Model system
- This is the system that is set up exactly the way you want it with regard
to installed fixes. It has the fixes installed that you decided should be
installed. You want the other systems that you are managing to have the same
fixes installed as the model system. When you use the Compare and Update wizard,
you make managing your fixes a lot easier.