Registering Your Gear in the Disconnected ModeThis Tech Tip explains how to register your hardware and software, or gear, with the Sun Connection Inventory Channel from within a disconnected or protected network where Internet, or cross-intranet connections, are not allowed for security and compliance reasons. How to Leave Comments or Tag Pages1. Register. |
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Comments (2)
Mar 18, 2008
itdcmy@its.hants.gov.uk says:
Not very usable I'm afraid. Click on "Discover and Register" and nothing happen...Not very usable I'm afraid.
Click on "Discover and Register" and nothing happens at all.
Viewed page source to get the link from the button and put this into the browser (http://inventory.sun.com/RegistrationClient/client.jnlp). Select to open with the Java Web-start executable and I get a pop-up which says "Unable to launch Sun Connection Product Registration"
Click on the details button and get:
"An error occurred while launching/running the application.
Title: Sun Connection Product Registration
Vendor: Sun Microsystems
Category: Launch File Error
Unsupported JNLP version in launch file: 1.5+. Only version 1.0 is supported with this version. Please contact the application vendor to report this problem."
As for the Off-line method, what a palaver! Getting a laptop onto the same subnet as the servers will be impossible without breaking security.
Mar 19, 2008
Owen_Allen says:
I'm sorry that you're having difficulty with the discovery process. That error ...I'm sorry that you're having difficulty with the discovery process.
That error message means that your browser is using an outdated version of Java web start. If you set your browser to use the new version, the issue should be resolved.
Getting a laptop onto the same subnet as the servers isn't the only way of discovering and registering gear in offline mode. There is an alternate method mentioned in the article - download the registration client (a java application), place it onto some sort of portable media (flash drive, CD, etc.), perform whatever vetting or certification you'd like, and then run the registration client on the secure network.