Are Novell downloads limited to subscription customers? PUM

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Hi Dan,

Are you a user of PUM?

I don't mind open another thread as subsequent questions
relating to PUM warrant another thread in EE. We encountered
various issues like the PUM server often had to be rebooted,
connections suddenly drop & MS SQL Studio can't display its
GUI to the user, etc

When logging case with our PUM vendor it did not go very far
other than we're told that the MS patches & hardenings pushed
down to our VMs are the likely culprits

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> limited to 5 agents
If I install only the agents & not the servers, I guess there's no limit
right? What this means is the PUM server can only 'manage' 5
agents at most

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I'm installing agents only without the server in our staging to verify
if the agent has any impact to various apps like SQL, oracle, SMTP,
etc

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One last query:

was trying to search for Ver 2.3.3 after creating a login id
but the closest I get was 2.3.0.3 : refer to attached screen
PUM233.jpg

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Thanks for your patience; I'm not too savvy with these things.

Is the agent indicated in the red arrow in the attached screen
(ie 'PUM as a Service') or it's under the other item below it?
When I downloaded this zip file of 'PUM as a Service' & unzip
it, it only contains an xml file
PUM233-Dwnld.jpg
PUMas-aService.jpg

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Just go the iso file downloaded after a few attempts.

This iso is for Windows only or it can be used for Redhat Linux as well?

The documentation mentions it's meant for Windows plus RHES plus
Solaris x86 but that's weird : how can the same binary be used across
so many OS platforms?

The next thing is to find how to install just the agent only

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http://www.novell.com/documentation/privilegedusermanager23/esd/ii_npum233.html

Below is what the above documentation says:

NetIQ-PUM-2.3.3.iso
Contains the Framework Manager and Agent software for all the supported platforms: Linux*, AIX*, Solaris*, HP-UX*, Tru64*, and Windows*.

Also contains a package file for setting up a local host as a Package Manager.

I'll probably need a free ISO browser (say MagicISO) to browse the content &
extract only what's needed