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Files Required for a Local Electronic Update

Before running a local Electronic Update, you must manually download the Electronic Update files from Revenera to your machine or to a local SFTP server. In both cases, the location should be accessible to the Code Insight server, so that Code Insight can access the downloaded files, unpack them, and apply the data to the Code Insight database schema.

Work with your Revenera representative to determine the best way for your site to receive notifications from Revenera when a new Electronic Update is available and to obtain download details.

The following files must be manually downloaded from Revenera to run the local Electronic Update:

  • Update Manifest file—The manifest file, update_manifest.txt, which contains the following:

    • Information that Code Insight uses to determine whether to perform the update.

    • The expected hash value for each data file in the update.zip file (see the next bullet). This information is compared with the hash values of the actual files in the archive to ensure that the files have not changed.

  • Update Data file—The update.zip file, an archive of the data files containing the CVSS information used by Code Insight to perform the Electronic Update.

    Code Insight uses the hash information in the manifest file (see the previous bullet) to ensure that the data files are the expected ones and that they have not changed or been tampered with.