Lesson 16: Implementing Software Update Service

Question 1

What are the advantages of using Software Update?

Answer 1

You can better administer updates to clients and prevent high bandwidth usage from your clients all reaching out to the Apple update servers, keeping the traffic within your network.

Question 2

What are three logs available to monitor the service?

Answer 2

Service, Error, and Access.

Question 3

How can you configure a client to use the update service?

Answer 3

Using the defaults command to modify the update plist or a configuration profile.

Question 4

What is the default port used?

Answer 4

8088. This is important as it needs to be defined in the catalog URL even though it isn’t shown in the configuration panes in the Server app.

Question 5

What level of management can Software Update be applied to in Profile Manager?

Answer 5

Devices and device groups.