Software Update Server URL in 10.8 still the same?

I was trying to manage Mac OS X 10.8 clients via Workgroup manager 10.8 to use the new SUS on my 10.8 server. No joy. Get an error (NSURLErrorDomain error -1100.)

Since then I've tried 10.8 clients using our 10.7 SUS with the same error.

Thinking it might have been a workgroup manager issue I've also tried modifying the plist file using sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://servername:8088/index.sucatalog but that just gives the same error.

Trying to find out if 10.8 clients can actually use a SUS server if anyone knows.

According to this compatablity matrix, only 10.8 server can server 10.8 clients... bummer.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2794

App store on a Mac OS X 10.8 client is now updating fine from a 10.8 server. I think I just needed to let the SUS finish downloading a few new updates, then after a restart of the 10.8 server everything just started working.

Again, I'm using Workgroup manager 10.8 to mange the user preferences and point at the SUS. You should be able to do this just as easily on a 10.8 client machine just modifying users in the local directory instead of the LDAP open directory.

Unfortunately most of our 10.7 SUS's spread around the company are also running FileMaker 11 Server which isn't compatible with Mountain Lion according to FileMaker.com. Will have to stick to the standard Lion for a while :-(

Mac&More wrote:

Hello everybody,

I just checked the logs on the OSX Server and found that that above URL causes errors, I used this here and now it works fine: http://SERVER.local:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.su catalog

So I manually change the setting on each client with

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://SERVER.local:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.su catalog

and the clients can download updates from the server. I always wonder why this isn't properly documented, or maybe I missed it somewhere.

Hi all,

I upgraded my Mac Mini Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server last night. So far everything except the Software Update Server appear to be functioning as expected.

I've done this on the Mountain Lion Server itself as well as an iMac client and it still doesn't work. Poking around at the swupd logs, I keep seeing this:

[Sat Jul 28 16:21:57 2012] [error] [client 172.XXX.XXX.XXX] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /Library/Server/Software Update/Data/html/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

But the file is there:

lrwxr-xr-x 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 128 Jul 27 23:47 /Library/Server/Software Update/Data/html/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog -> /Library/Server/Software Update/Data/html/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog

any thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks!!

there should be no space between 'su catalog'.........should be 'sucatalog'

I must be missing something obvious. I had a old Lion->Mountain Lion update and SUS wasn't working. I was constantly getting -1102 errors. Now mind you I actually use a Network Account Server which may be the initial problem. But I rebuild my Mac Mini with Mountain Lion and 10.8 Server and reconfigured everything.

Again I try to connect and I'm back to -1102.

Seemed like a simple concept... open up Server, turn on Software Update Server, then let it pull the updates. The only thing I can imagine is maybe it has to download everything before it works?? There some fine print on the service?

I attempt to manualy set -

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://mini.local:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.suca talog

I also manually attempt to go to:

http://mini.local:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.suca talog

Expecting to see a XML page but instead I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog on this server.

I took a look at the sym link on the server and it points to -

lrwxr-xr-x 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 128 Sep 7 16:39 index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog -> /Library/Server/Software Update/Data/html/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-le opard.merged-1.sucatalog

So I go take a look at that directory ...

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 20414073 Sep 9 09:54 index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.productscache

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1818997 Sep 7 15:34 index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1818997 Sep 7 15:34 index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple.previous

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1436827 Sep 9 09:53 index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1.sucatalog.composite

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 25530655 Sep 9 09:53 index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.productscache

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 2272365 Sep 7 15:48 index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 2272365 Sep 7 15:48 index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple.previous

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1800057 Sep 9 09:52 index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.composite

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 15276227 Sep 9 09:52 index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.productscache

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1494207 Sep 7 15:48 index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1494207 Sep 7 15:48 index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.apple.previous

-rw-r--r-- 1 _softwareupdate _softwareupdate 1172665 Sep 9 09:49 index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.composite

The pointer doesn't exist.

Look here: Point clients to a Software Update server and look in the sidebar for more SUS info...

I think the URL that you enter depends upon whether your server is a virgin installation of Mountain Lion Server or not. If you upgrade your server from a previous version of OS X Server, the "merged-1" catalog is applicable, at least for 10.6 clients.

In my case, I upgraded my Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server. 10.6 clients do not work with the "index.sucatalog" URL, but do work with the "merged-1.sucatalog" URL. 10.6 clients DID work with the "index.sucatalog" URL before when this server was originally configured from a virgin Lion Server installation.

Mountain Lion clients DO work with the "index.sucatalog" URL, however, for my upgraded server.

It appears that the proper url for Mountain Lion is http://myserver.domain.com:8088/catalogs.sucatalog. This will serve updates to all clients.

Mine started to finally work after the Software Downloads completed if that helps anyone. Just took awhile since there were quite a bit, and I have a 8Mbps DSL connection.

I upgraded my server from 10.7 to 10.8, using Profile Manager for SUS. Everything worked fine on 10.7

After the upgrade, my 10.8 test box isn't getting updates from the server, but from the Apple App Store.

I made the URL change http://mini.local:8088/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.suca talog but that didn't resolve the issue. Anyone else using Profile Manager and it's working after the upgrade?

I got my 10.8 server to provide updates to my 10.6 clients at http://sus.domain.com:8088/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.mer ged-1.sucatalog.composite

you can find all the options in the file system at

/Library/Server/Software\ Update/Data/html/content/catalogs/others

This is not specific to your question but may offer insight. See the following article from Apple regarding where the sucatalog settings are located. Check yours & make sure you have all the appropriate catalogs in there.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4771

If it's incorrect you can manually change it. I actually have updated a 10.6 server to download the updates for Lion clients. I haven't had a chance to test it yet & given Apple doesn't list that as supported I have doubts it will work but the server isn't having any problems downloading the updates (including the 10.8.2 combo).