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• Configuration
  • There are two global configuration parameters:
    • *xen.update.url  - *URL to get latest Xenserver Updates.
    • *xen.update.check.interval (in sec) -  * How frequent update thread frequently should CloudStack check for Xenserver Updates.
• User permission
  • Root-Admin would have privilege to list the available updates.

Architecture and Design description

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Search for Host Updates

For Xenserver hypervisor, latest information about the updates for any version of Xenserver is available at this location : http://updates.xensource.com/XenServer/updates.xml

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New cloudStack object:

update

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DB Schema changes

New tables

• host_updates  (id, uuid, label, description, after_apply_guidancelabel, url, timestamp)

  Field	Type	NULL	Key	Default	Extra
  id	bigint(20) unsigned	NO	PRI	NULL	auto_increment
  uuid	varchar(40)	NO		NULL
  description	varchar(999)	YES		NULL
  label	varchar(40)	YES		NULL
  timestamp	varchar(80) timestamp	YES		NULL
  url	varchar(999)	YES		NULL

• patch_host_ref  (id, host_id,patch_id, update_applied)

  Field	Type	NULL	Key	Default	Extra
  id	bigint(20) unsigned	NO	PRI	NULL	auto_increment
  host_id	bigint(20) unsigned	NO	MUL	NULL
  patch_id	bigint(20) unsigned	NO		NULL
  update_applied	tinyint(1)	NO		0

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Step 1: Navigate to the detailView page of a host, there you will find a new tab "Updates".

Step 2: Click on* "Updates"* tab to get a list of updates for this host.