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This section contains problems and corrections for the following manuals of the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager, Version 4.2 library:
The following new information applies to the Reference Manual for Software Distribution.
If the timeout attribute is higher than or equal to zero and the force_restart attribute is set to y, a soft reboot is invoked. In case it fails, a hard reboot is performed after the timeout expires and when the gateway connects to the endpoint again.
The following new information applies to the Reference Manual for Software Distribution.
Note: The rename_if_locked attribute is not supported for OS/400 endpoints.
The following new information applies to the User's Guide for Software Distribution.
"The default interval is 1 second."
The following new information applies to the Planning and Installation Guide .
Change the paragraph "The Desktop installation program installs Tivoli Desktop for Windows and the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager administrative interfaces. This installation can be used on Windows operating systems only, except for Windows 98." into:
"The Desktop installation program installs Tivoli Desktop for Windows and the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager administrative interfaces. This installation can be used on Windows operating systems only, except for Windows 98 and Windows Server 2003."
Add the following text after the second paragraph:
To install Tivoli Desktop for Windows on Windows Server 2003, open the Desktop directory on cd 3 of the IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Desktop CD (cd3\desktop), then run setup.exe. When the Tivoli Desktop installation is complete, you can install components using Software Distribution (See the section Installing Components using Software Package Blocks for more information). You can also install using the wdinstsp command, if SPEditor is installed on the target.
The following information changes apply to the Reference Manual for Software Distribution.
Using this command, you can add applications that were installed independently of Software Distribution to the Software Distribution catalog on the endpoint. The specified software package is assigned a state of IC-D-, indicating that it is installed and discovered.
There are limitations to the change management operations that can be used for a discovered software package. Only the following operations are available:
The following information changes apply to the User's Guide for Software Distribution.
The repair functionality identifies which source and target objects have been modified or corrupted since the last successful installation of a software package, and rebuilds the software package with only these objects rather than installing the entire package again. The submission of a repair operation might take long time if the check of objects modified or corrupted is run for a large number of endpoints.
The following information changes apply to the Planning and Installation Guide.
The Software Distribution upgrade from 4.2 to 4.2.2 does not require any upgrade script for the database repository.
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