Environment
Novell Open
Enterprise Server 2 (OES2)
Novell Open
Enterprise Server 2 (Linux based)
Novell SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
sleep-interval set
to default 1800 seconds
Situation
Login to an
OES server with the GUI, the ZEN updater (zmd) shows there is no
updates, but a rug refresh shows updates
Running rug
lu from an OES server command line shows no updates, but running
rug ref then rug lu shows updates.
Resolution
The zmd
globe refresh does not perform the same function as a rug ref, this
is why different results are observed. When zmd (globe)
wakes up from sleep (or resumes after sleep) it sets ForceCache
flag to true, meaning that zmd will forcibly use the
cached content. zmd will not bring the latest content from the
content repo, but rug ref will.
If the
administrator wants to obtain the updates more frequently the
refresh-interval value must be set to a value less than the default
86400 secons (1 day). The recommended refresh-interval is the
default, 86400 seconds.
Verify that
rug get shows sleep-interval set
to default 1800 seconds.
If the
sleep-interval is not set to 1800 seconds, at the command prompt
type:
rug set
sleep-interval 1800
Additional Information
Default zmd
settings (by typing rug get at the command line):
refresh-interval
|
86400
| How long between refreshes, in seconds
sleep-interval | 1800 | Number of seconds of inactivity until sleep occurs
sleep-threshold | 600 | Number of seconds before a scheduled event to wake up
sleep-interval | 1800 | Number of seconds of inactivity until sleep occurs
sleep-threshold | 600 | Number of seconds before a scheduled event to wake up
It is not
recommended to have zmd and rug have the same behavior.
Running "rug ref" before "rug lu" is a overhead considering that
fact that there is typically not more than one or two updates
for the server per day.