Subscription Download Page

The Subscription Download page allows you to configure the subscription download options for the ZENworks Primary Server. You can select the languages that are used within your network to ensure that you only download the patches that are most applicable for your organization. The next time replication occurs, only those patches specific to the languages are downloaded, which saves time and disk space on your ZENworks Primary Server.

NOTE:Novell does not recommend selecting all languages because each language can represent hundreds of patches. Downloading unnecessary languages can result in thousands of useless patch definitions within your ZENworks Primary Server database that would then need to be disabled in the Patch Management tab.

Item	Description
Choose your language options	Enables you to select the language of patches you want to download. For example, if you select the French check box, only French language patches are downloaded.
Mix Multiple Languages	Enables you to combine all languages into each Discover Applicable Updates Assignment (not recommended).
SSL	Enables you to turn secured downloading on or off.
Cache patch bundles to satellite servers	Enables you to cache patch bundles to the servers or workstations that are managed by primary servers.
Cache patch bundles to primary servers	Enables you to cache patch bundles to primary servers only.

IMPORTANT:Customers with larger network environments should select both Cache patch bundles to satellite servers and Cache patch bundles to primary servers.

Within an enterprise network environment, the customer usually installs more than one ZCM Primary Server. Although only one of these servers can be used to download patches, every Primary Server has a cache of bundle content for distribution to the agents that are closest to it within the zone. Thus, when an agent wants to get a bundle, it can get the bundle directly from its closest Primary Server rather than the Primary Server where the patches were downloaded.

The Satellites that are installed within the customer network can also serve as a cache for bundle content. If an agent is at a remote branch office with a Satellite, it can get its content directly from the Satellite rather than the Primary Server where patches were downloaded.

Button	Action
OK	Enables you to go back to the Configuration page
Apply	Enables you to save the changes made to the page
Reset	Enables you to reset the selected options
Cancel	Enables you to cancel the last action performed

Recommendations for using patches:

Customers should disable patches that they no longer require, because this minimizes the volume of patch scan data stored each day, as well as the time taken to scan each of the endpoint devices.
We highly recommend that customers cache only the patches they need. When a patch is cached to the Primary Server where patches are downloaded, it normally needs to be copied to all Primary Servers and Satellites within the zone. Downloading all patches wastes a lot of space and bandwidth within the ZENworks Configuration Management content distribution network.