Using Notes® Auto Update
You don't have to rely on third-party products to automate deployment of new versions and updates of IBM® Notes®. Instead, you can enable Auto Update (AUT) servers to deploy Notes® updates automatically.
New Notes® install packages are uploaded and distributed to AUT-enabled Domino® servers through an AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf). Notes® clients that are enabled through Desktop Settings policy regularly poll the servers to check for new Notes® packages to download and install.
The configuration components of AUT servers are:
- A Domino® directory group that you create for the AUT servers.
- A server Configuration document that you create in which you specify the DNS name that Notes® clients use to connect to AUT servers for install updates. Saving this document automatically generates a Web Site document and a Web SSO configuration document for the AUT server or servers.
- An AUT Catalog (autcat.nsf), created and replicated to AUT servers automatically. The catalog is used to upload new Notes® install packages to AUT servers and to define version upgrade paths.
- Desktop Settings policies (Notes® versions to upgrade to. ) that you create to assign users to particular
AUT requirements are:
- AUT servers must run least Domino® 10.0.1 and must be in the same Domino® domain.
- AUT servers require a Domino® 10.0.1 or later version of the Domino® directory design (pubnames.ntf).
- Round-robin DNS used for distributing client update requests to multiple AUT servers in a Domino® domain.
- Install kits downloaded from IBM® web site (web kits) can be deployed. Install kits on CD-ROM are not supported.
- Notes® clients to be upgraded must be in the same Domino® domain as the AUT servers.
- Notes® 10.0.1 or later clients on Windows™ can be upgraded.
- Notes® Mac and iOS platforms are not currently supported for upgrades.
- Downgrading to prior client versions is not supported.
- Server upgrades are not supported.