Package Deployment with OpsCenter
There has been some discussion on Constantins blog about working around IPS' scripting limitations. I don't want to talk about the reasons, why IPS does not have classical pre/postinstall-scripts, but I want to demonstrate how this functionality could be achieved with Oracle's Enterprise Manager OpsCenter. If you don't know OpsCenter, it's _the_ management tool from Oracle for Solaris, Unbreakable Linux and OracleVM. OS Updates In OpsCenter terminology Package deployments are called "OS Updates". OS Updates consist of Update Components (Packages, Patches and Configurations), Update Policies and Update Profiles. If an OS is to be updated, so called "Update Profile"-jobs will be sent to hosts run. Update Profiles There are two types of Update Profiles, System-defined and User-defined. What we're looking for are user defined profiles. A user-defined profile contains components. These components can be Packages, Pre/Postinstall-Scr...