Installation features

Domino 14.5 Early Access Drop 1 provides the following installation and upgrade enhancements.

AIX for AutoUpdate

The Domino AutoUpdate feature expands its support of the AIX platform.

  • In addition to previous support for AIX servers to run the AutoUpdate task, they are now supported as download or designated servers, and as Target servers for distributed downloads.
  • AIX servers are NOT supported as Target servers for installations.

For more information, see Downloading, distributing, and installing software using AutoUpdate.

AutoUpdate for software installs

14.0 allowed you to conveniently download software and distribute it to Domino servers. You can now use AutoUpdate to automatically update Domino on Windows and Linux servers.

AutoUpdate can only update Domino to 14.5 (including early access) or later releases. For the first release (14.5 Early Access Program Drop 1), you can only update to the same 14.5 EAP Drop 1 version, but it gives you the opportunity to try the feature. To try it, make sure the Status field on the Product Updates tab of the Domino directory profile is set to Notify, Download and Update (see Enabling AutoUpdate).

For detailed information on this auto install feature, see Updating software on target Domino servers or deployment groups.

Note:

To use AutoUpdate to automatically download software from My HCLSoftware (MHS), you must have a My HCLSoftware Software account that has a valid license for the requested software. In addition, you must have accepted the license agreement on MHS for any software you wish to download.

Early Access Program releases require separate licenses from production releases.

An attempt to download software from MHS using AutoUpdate could fail with a status of "There are unaccepted license agreements." If this happens, you must log on to MHS and attempt to download the software manually. MHS will prompt you to accept the license agreement. You only have to accept the license once, and thereafter AutoUpdate can download any software covered by the license.