Owner's Manual

138 Dell Patch Management Solution
Dell Vendor Configuration Page
In the DUPs Update Preference Settings option, priority is given to the Altiris
Agent enabled patch updates over the Lifecycle Controller enabled patch
updates.
1
In the Home menu, click Patch Management for Dell Servers Home .
2 From the Getting Started Web part, under Configuration , click Solution
Global Settings
.
3 In the right pane, make changes on the Dell Vendor Configuration page.
4
Click Apply .
Configure this page to set up the DUP distribution method; some of these
settings are used as default values in the Rollout Job wizard. All new DUPs
that are downloaded have these settings by default. If you change the
settings, the existing software update tasks and packages are not updated with
these defaults. You can force them to update by re-creating packages from the
Manage Software Updates page.
Options on the General tab
Option Description
DUPs Download
Verification
Ensures that all DUPs are Dell certified. This option is selected
by default.
DUPs Download
Location
The Dell FTP site is selected by default so that DUPs are
downloaded directly from this website. Click Local storage if you
want to download DUPs from another location and specify the
location in the field.
DUPs Update
Preference
Settings
By default, the preference is set to Apply updates using Altiris
Agent. To set Lifecycle Controller as preference, select Apply
updates using Lifecycle Controller.
NOTE: When you can update a server using both Altiris agent and
Lifecycle Controller, the update is performed based on the
preference setting.
DUPs
Distribution
Options
Specify the target servers to receive distributed DUPs for the
Windows operating system, Linux operating system, or Lifecycle
Controller.
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