Enabling AutoUpdate

This feature makes administrators aware of the latest version of Domino and Domino product family available on the My HCLSoftware Portal and allows you to download and distribute the software.

This feature requires the Domino 14 design of the Domino Directory (names.nsf) and is supported on Domino 14 servers only. Administrators must use the HCL Notes or Administrator client 12.0.1 or higher when configuring AutoUpdate.

Note:
  • Enabling the AutoUpdate feature is a domain-wide setting and applies to Domino 14 and newer releases only. Since the AutoUpdate task is enabled on Domino 14 by default, as soon as these steps are completed, it will be enabled on all Domino 14 servers in the domain.
  • When enabled, AutoUpdate starts automatically. If disabled, it just checks to see if the feature status changes.

  1. Using an HCL Notes or Administrator client, open the Domino directory.

  2. Select Actions > Edit Directory Profile, then click the Product Updates tab.

  3. In the "Status" field, select the desired status:
    • Notify Only to display the latest available software updates in the Domino Directory and in the Domino Administrator client.
    • Notify and Download to display latest updates, download the software catalog, and allow administrators to download software, save it automatically to the autoupdate.nsf, as well as distribute software downloads to target servers in the same Domino Domain.
    Note: In Domino 14.0, Notify, Download and Update provides the same functionality as Notify and Download. In a future version, it is planned that you'll be able use this option to also perform updates of Domino and selected Domino add-on products.
  4. In the "Download server" field, select the server that will retrieve the software catalog and host the downloads. This one server will act as the designated download and management server.
    Note: Since AutoUpdate applies domain-wide, it is configured per domain. Each domain can only have one designated download server.

  5. Save the document.

  6. Open the Domino console on the selected download server and restart the AutoUpdate task:
    restart task autoupdate

Verifying AutoUpdate is enabled

When AutoUpdate is enabled, a new database autoupdate.nsf is created on the download server, which will host the software catalog. By default, only the administrators and servers in the same Domino domain have access to the database.

With the Notify only and the Notify and Download statuses, a product.jwt is downloaded periodically and documents in the Product Info view are updated with the latest production versions available for each product.

With the Notify and Download status, additionally a software.jwt is downloaded periodically and software documents in autoupdate.nsf are updated with the current availability of software downloads.

The information downloaded is signed using JSON Web Tokens. If the signature doesn't verify, Domino will not import the data into the autoupdate.nsf.

What to do next

Configuring the Global Configuration Document