Installing with the Distribution Server

The Distribution Server product performs remote installations (or uninstallations) of BMC Software distributed system products across multiple systems from a central location.

With the Distribution Server, you can perform the following tasks:

• Install, uninstall, upgrade, and reinstall products on remote systems from on central location
• Create collections of products and system groups to distribute multiple products to multiple systems in one distribution
• Schedule a distribution for a specific date and time
• Maintain multiple product versions for distribution
• View reports to check distribution status, gather distribution data, and diagnose problems

The details of how to install a product across an enterprise to multiple computers by using Distribution Server are beyond the scope of this book. However, this section does describe how to import the PATROL for DB2 product into the Distribution Server. It also provides a high-level overview of the enterprise installation process. For detailed information about how to use Distribution Server, see the Distribution Server Getting Started.