Environment
8.7 to 9.6
Description
- The client looks if it has a package in its local cache (sdmcache).
- It performs a subnet-directed multicast broadcast and basically asks the following to the peers: "Looking for packet X with a hash value of Y"
- A peer (or several) will respond with "Yes, I have this package"
- The client requesting the package will open a connection on port 33354 (More details about ports used by LANDESK: Ports used by LANDesk Management Suite - Full List) to the other client which holds the package, and pull the file down via unicast.
Note
When staging packages, the package must be placed into:
Program Files\LANDesk\LDClient\sdmcache
After the file is distributed or placed on the staging machine, the multicast service must be restarted in order to write the registry settings.
The peers will now be able to download the package from this machine.
Staging
To stage the file, create a distribution package (for instance a bat distribution package) and add the to be staged file into the additional files.
If the files are to be moved to a different location on the machine, that can be handled by modifying the bat file that this package was created with.
Otherwise the files may be left in the sdmcache folder where it can be launched at a later time.