Q: SUS 10.7.4 managed clients
SUS running on a 10.7.4 Server, updates are enabled and coppied.
Managed clients are set (through Profile Manager) to use the URL: "http://ourserver.fqdn:8088/index.sucatalog"
The clients insist on using the default software update location.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted on Jun 15, 2012 12:16 PM
Firstly, that's the wrong URL.
http://server.example.com:8088/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
Secondly, if you get the URL wrong, software update will just error. It won't default back.
It sounds like you have bigger probalms... You should ensure that profile manager is properly pushing settings to clients.
Push the new setting to the client computer and wait for it to complete.
Once it completes, restart the client.
On that client machine in terminal type:
sudo defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL
type your password.
It should echo out the URL you've specified. If it doesn't, then there's something else going on preventing the setting from being pushed out.
-Graham
Posted on Jun 16, 2012 6:24 PM