Without knowing much about your Linux `Appliance`, I wonder if what you really
need is some sort of broadcast/bootp/upnp pattern where the client ( either the
application itself at runtime or perhaps a custom action inside the MSI ) fires
and finds the server automagically. Perhaps similar to the way my
Xbox360/DirecTV HDDVR and various Media Center/Windows MediaPlayer/TVVersity
all automatically find each other.
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bir, Steve" writes:
> We are attempting to seed a server IP address by adding it into the name
> of the msi. We have an msi that is being deployed from a Linux Appliance
> and when the appliance starts we need to somehow add into the msi the IP
> address of the appliance without invalidating the cert. Adding it in to
> the filename itself was how it was done before using msi for installing
> but any way that I can get an IP address embedded into the msi without
> invalidating the cert will work. Any suggestions?
Does the IP address change every time the appliance boots?
If its that variable, then you're going to need to somehow rename the
file every time you boot the appliance?
I would explore a mechanism for having a CA in the MSI query the
environment to get the IP. For instance, if you can control the
hostname of the appliance, then you can have a CA do the IP lookup (or
just use the hostname instead of the IP, since the IP can change).
If you have a UI that's displayed you can prompt for the hostname and
populate it with a default value that is most likely going to be
correct.
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