Matt Domsch wrote, On 02/27/2010 06:48 PM: > For PowerEdge, you could parse the XML Catalog, which is what > Repository Manager, DMC, and other 3rd party commercial update tools > use. > > ftp://ftp.dell.com/catalog/Catalog.xml.gz > ftp://ftp.dell.com/catalog/Catalog.xml.gz.sign
Matt, Thanks! I didn't know that was quickly accessible. There does appear to be some historical unmaintained cruft there (e.g. Catalog.xml.tar.gz), but if that file is reliable (and i presume from your description of it being used by the above tools that it won't disappear anytime soon), then that's is DEFINITELY good news ;). Yeah, it doesn't help me with the hundreds of desktop (Precision WS) & laptop (Latitude) systems i also manage, but this is definitely useful. > This does not include history, but it does include the current release > block's set of files. This file is updated as part of the "block > release process", when a whole set of tested updates are published at > once. > The next obvious question is - where can I find the schema for this > XML? I believe this is available as part of Dell's PartnerDirect > program: http://dell.com/partnerdirect/. You may be able to tease the > bits you want out of the XML directly without having the full schema > though. Yeah, it definitely (at this point) looks pretty easily parsable (sans the UTF16 stuff, which is easily coped with). Thanks, --stephen _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
