Using filewave to deploy Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 - 6 for Mac using the AAMEE Package Process

1.  Download the AAMEE Package Builder from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html, start it, specify the path to your installation medium etc. 
   

Summary
This KB article will explain the intelligent downloader and give the best pratices to uprade your selfhealed softwares by benefiting from this feature.

Intelligent Downloader
When a fileset is deployed and the time to download has come, the FileWave Client will check for existing exact copies of the fileset files before it starts the download.
The match is met only if:

Summary
There are different ways for upgrading your managed softwares and the method you choose depends on your filesets type.
This KB article describes the available options for the upgrade.

Introduction

As of version 5.6.1 - the FileWave server will use the system's proxy configuration while making HTTP requests. This change was made to accomodate the software update feature that needs outbound http access for downloading the update catalogs for OSX and Windows.

By default, the fwxserver process will use your computers system settings for the proxy - but only if the fwxserver is running on Mac or Windows.  Linux systems do not have a standard way of configuring their proxy settings and it's therefore not feasible to auto detect these.

Summary
Apple's certificate used to sign Updates for OS X Lion and Mac OS 10.6.8 has expired on March 23, 2012 and Apple reposted some of the updates. Therefore, Filewave server will not recognize the Filesets that were previously created (before Apple's change) because their internal IDs have changed in the Apple catalog.

Changing the Kiosk Port requires finding what ports are available, choosing method, making the change.
On occasion you may find that the default Kiosk Port of 20020 will conflict with other services, and needs to be changed.

Finding what ports are available

Open a command prompt

Mac - Apple's Terminal.app will work perfectly
Located in: Macintosh HD → Applications → Utilities → Terminal.app  
use the netstat command to locate an unused port

FileWave TCP/IP Port Usage

By default the FileWave software listens on the TCP/IP ports listed below. These are the defaults and they can be configured to listen on different ports if required.
New ports numbers are in red.

FileWave Client Ports
20010 TCP/IP for monitor-client communication
20020 TCP/IP for Kiosk (fwgui to talk to client)

Summary:

This knowledge base article describes the steps to use fileset merge feature in FilesetMagic to merge an update directly to the existing fileset. An example for when this might be useful is when you need to deploy a software update for a software package that is currently controlled by FileWave. Deploying software updates to client machines using pkg fileset can cause the changes to revert back if the software fileset files are set to self heal.

Procedure:

1. Download the most recent Adobe AIR Installer from http://get.adobe.com/air/
    
2. Import the attached fileset into FileWave Admin and open it. This fileset contains a script that calls the Adobe AIR Installer as referenced in the AAMEE Guide using the command below.
   Starting the installation this way enables it to succeed even if no user is logged on at the target system. 

Summary
If you are adding new Boosters, this article describes the steps to configure your clients to pull filesets from the boosters.

Procedure
You need to configure your booster to talk to your FileWave Server and then configure your clients to request Filesets from the Booster.