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D3 Documentation

This is the place for Casper Admins who want to use d3 to enhance package management with their Casper installation.

The Ruby module documentation for both d3, and ruby-jss are available for developers who wish to contribute, or just use the modules for their own projects.

For a general overview, and some basic d3-vocabulary, please read the Welcome Page

Table of Contents

• Welcome to d3

  • What is d3?
  • History
  • Basic Vocabulary

• Setting up d3

  1. Preparing the servers
  2. Policies, Scripts, and Extension Attributes
  3. Installing d3 on your own machine
  4. Expiration setup
  5. Editing the config files
  6. Adding your first package
  7. Deploy your first package to your machine
  8. Test sync for auto-updates
  9. Import packages from Casper
  10. Deploy d3

• Packages

  • Status
  • Package properties
    • Description
    • Auto groups
    • Excluded groups
    • Pre- and Post- scripts
      • Exit status 111 on pre- scripts
    • Prohibiting process
    • Remove first
    • Uninstallable
    • Reboot (PuppyTime!)
    • OS limitations
    • Expiration

• Receipts

  • Status
  • Freezing
  • Reports

• Client

  • d3 command-line utility
    • installing packages
      • piloting
      • conditional installs
      • uninstalling
    • Getting Info About Packages
    • Syncing
    • force
  • Expiration
    • d3RepoMan
  • puppytime
    • puppy queue

• Admin

  • d3admin
    • add
    • edit
    • make live
    • delete
    • package searches
    • reports
  • Auto-cleaning

• Configuration

  • jss_gem.conf
  • d3.conf
  • admin keychains
  • casper policies and scripts used by d3