The meat of SCR is its configuration file; if we make a mistake here, we will never have those patches downloaded, and we can't have our SCR instance ready. Pay attention to what you choose; if a channel is not required, don't mention it the configuration file.
In this recipe, we will have a look at the various configuration options we have, what they mean, and how to configure them.
Follow the Installing SCR recipe to install SCR and prepare the encrypted passwords.
Consult your OS support teams about which Linux/Unix OSes will be patched by VCM so that you can download those patches beforehand.
In this recipe, we will prepare for RedHat Linux patching; however, the same principle applies for all Linux operating systems.
The example properties files are available in the scr_root/conf/
directory.
If you have been following along properly so far, then the RHEL properties file will be at /opt/SCR/redhat-rt.properties
.
As stated earlier...