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SUM, Subscriptions and folder naming (numbering)

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SUM "magically" creates folder names for the subscriptions. The question is whether there is any way to control which numbers are assigned (apart from the "basic" S000).

Let's assume you have two independent management servers which both manage about half of your clients. In your updating policies you want to use each as the secondary for the other. This requires that the same folder name (Snnn) is used for the same subscription on both servers.

Now I think this can be tricky. As far as I found out SUM now uses consecutive numbering and for new installations the first additional subscription gets S001. The first versions of SUM used a different scheme (looked like the numbers were somehow derived, the software for MAC OS X 10.2/10.3 had S036).  It looks like SUM somehow remembers the last number used - even if I delete all but the "Recommended" subscription if I later add a new one it's assigned a new number.

Christian

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    Meanwhile I've contacted Support and the answer is, that the serials (that's the correct term for the Snnn folder names) can't be - forgive the pun - serialized (just in case someone from Sophos wants to check, case ID #2423202).

    It is in fact not a minor problem for me. Computers from the domain have a WebCID as secondary update location (mainly for notebooks when they are not "inside" - but recently the primary server has been unavailable for some time and to have the secondary was an advantage). The server hosting the WebCIDs has an independent SUM - no problem for the Recommended subscription (as long as I subscribe to the same SAV version). I don't want to migrate to SAV9.5 in one fell swoop but as it is now this doesn't seem to be possible: The new subscription in the domain has serial S001 whereas the other SUM has S073 assigned. So clients from the domain won't find the WebCID (which they expect to have serial S001).

    I'm surprised that seemingly I'm the only one having a problem with it

    Christian   

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    Meanwhile I've contacted Support and the answer is, that the serials (that's the correct term for the Snnn folder names) can't be - forgive the pun - serialized (just in case someone from Sophos wants to check, case ID #2423202).

    It is in fact not a minor problem for me. Computers from the domain have a WebCID as secondary update location (mainly for notebooks when they are not "inside" - but recently the primary server has been unavailable for some time and to have the secondary was an advantage). The server hosting the WebCIDs has an independent SUM - no problem for the Recommended subscription (as long as I subscribe to the same SAV version). I don't want to migrate to SAV9.5 in one fell swoop but as it is now this doesn't seem to be possible: The new subscription in the domain has serial S001 whereas the other SUM has S073 assigned. So clients from the domain won't find the WebCID (which they expect to have serial S001).

    I'm surprised that seemingly I'm the only one having a problem with it

    Christian   

    :4319
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