[pca] SunSolve updated -- improved patch downloading

Fri Aug 14 10:28:03 CEST 2009

Replying to myself...

If you can avoid it, don't change your SOA contract at the moment.
I'm getting about a 1% success rate using wget for contract patches - 
ironically, I'm getting more 500-errors than I am successful downloads.

I left a loop running for a while to attempt to download a small 
contract patch every minute or so. Here's what it looked like this morning:

2009-08-14 07:47:11 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:48:19 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:49:23 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:50:27 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:51:31 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:52:35 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:53:39 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:54:43 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:55:47 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:56:51 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:57:55 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 07:59:00 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:00:05 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

2009-08-14 08:01:10 
URL:https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/21808/15m/sun.download.akamai.com/21808/patches/patchroot/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip?AuthParam=1250233388_6c06ee6663d95d73c8070ed1bda76d53&TUrl=L0QdUQV8Z4i0fdED3QTP3SJDWA8FMyaJsHfIWf4X29kTWQpKEzIbwqFuyRPZ&TicketId=3q32klaNOx5W&GroupName=SWUP&BHost=sdlc2i.sun.com&FilePath=/patches/patchroot/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip&File=118959-04.zip 
[111397/111397] -> "/dev/null" [1] 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:02:14 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:03:18 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:04:22 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:05:27 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:06:31 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:07:36 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:08:40 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:09:44 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:10:49 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:11:54 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:12:58 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:14:02 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:15:06 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:16:10 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

https://getupdates2.sun.com/all_unsigned/118959-04.zip: 

2009-08-14 08:17:13 ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this 
content.. 

I've had two successful downloads in the last 2 hours.

Dave

On 08/13/2009 06:12 PM, David Stark wrote:
> Hi Don, List.
>
> I had to add a new contract to my SunSolve account yesterday (the old
> one had expired), and immediately after adding it I started doing PCA
> downloads (from a different machine than the one I used to register the
> contract, but behind the same web proxy).
>
> I can get non-contract patches through PCA OK, but not contract ones and
> it's been like that over 24 hours now. Downloading from SunSolve works
> fine (and it's blisterin' quick. Yay!).
>
> The PCA proxy is getting:
> ERROR 403: You are not entitled to retrieve this content..
>
> Any hints on how to get this working again?
>
> Dave
>
> On 08/13/2009 12:06 PM, Don O'Malley wrote:
>> Hi Craig,
>>
>> Yeah, this is good news.
>>
>> The new system went live on Tuesday.
>> Hopefully this should see an end to the "ERROR 500" problems that pca
>> users where sporadically hitting for a long time now.
>>
>> I have been monitoring the new service since it has gone live and it
>> really does seem to be highly reliable so far.
>>
>> One key point to note is that there will be a delay of up to 8 hours for
>> wget users after they associate a new contract with their SOA (via the
>> "Edit Contract" link) on SunSolve.
>> This is detailed in the Technical Instruction document for wget users -
>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-240066-1.
>> (It is however expected that the advertised 8 hour delay, should behave
>> closer to a one hour delay in practice.)
>>
>> There is one other important point for pca users registered in the
>> Members Support Center from this document:
>> "For users registering or updating contracts on the Member Support
>> Center, an initial wget access *must *be attempted to trigger the
>> synchronization process."
>>
>> I believe that the new download service will make a massive difference
>> to pca users with the huge reliability improvements it brings.
>>
>> Best,
>> -Don
>>
>>
>> Craig Bell wrote:
>>> It looks as if Sun is working to address some of our concerns with
>>> downloading patches:
>>>
>>> http://blogs.sun.com/miriamsblog/entry/sunsolve_7_3_is_live
>>>
>>> Amongst the touted enhancements in v7.3, they mention improved patch
>>> downloading:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Customer have been experiencing breaks in downloading of patches where
>>>>
>>> the back end systems have gone off line and the download was stopped.
>>>
>>>> This has now been addressed by using a new download service.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are more details in the blog post. Thx... -cheers, CSB
>>>
>>>
>