Standalone update while in managed mode

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Hi,

I am looking at the options available to us in terms of updates. My use case is managed mode.

From the documentation here it says:

It is possible to run the Mender update client in standalone or managed mode.

For a managed client is it possible to install a .mender file manually using the standalone procedure below, then carry on with automatic updates after this?

mender -install myfile.mender
reboot
mender -commit

I ask since it might be desired to load a file from a USB stick etc rather than 4G data for the download.

Thanks!

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Hi Brian,
Yes, that should work just fine. Are you having issues?
Drew

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It will work as long as you intentionally not triggering update from both managed mode and standalone mode at the same time.

Please note that, managed mode already running a mender daemon which will look for update artifacts from the mender server. In standalone, you have to explicitly say that, there is an update using -install option.

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No issues - it was not clear from the documentation that this was supported.

Thanks!

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@drewmoseley is your statement still valid for newer versions of the mender-client (>2.4). Im asking as Standalone deployment | Mender documentation mentions differences for the standalone and managed mode.

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Yes, managed mode and standalone mode are intended to coexist with some minor caveats related to state script behavior as shown in that link.

Drew

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Just note that one small difference in 3.0 and newer is that -install and -commit have been removed and replaced by install and commit. These worked in the 2.x versions also, so it should be easy to migrate.