Owner's Manual

Dell Patch Management Solution 141
Discovering Patch Updates Supported Lifecycle
Controller Enabled Dell Servers
You can discover Dell servers that support the Lifecycle Controller enabled
patch updates.
To discover patch updates supported Dell servers installed with Lifecycle
Controller:
1
From the Home menu, click Patch Management for Dell Servers Home .
2 From Dell Management Console, using the device discovery wizard,
discover a Dell server.
3 On the discovered server that contains Lifecycle Controller, run inventory
using the Agentless inventory wizard.
4 From the Getting Started Web part, under Run compliance check on ,
click
Lifecycle Controller Enabled Servers .
5 In the Compliance Assessment Task for Lifecycle Controller enabled
Servers
page, select the server or servers to run the Lifecycle Controller
enabled patch and click
New Schedule to specify a schedule for the job to
run periodically. By default, all Dell servers with Lifecycle Controller are
selected for this task.
Accessing Dell Patch Management Reports
You can view and manage your Altiris Agent and Lifecycle Controller enabled
Patch Management data through reports.
To access Dell Patch Management reports:
1
On the Reports menu, click All Reports .
2 In the left pane, click Reports  Software  Patch Management for Dell
Servers
.
3 Select the folder with the reports you require.
For example,
Dell Server Patching Inventory reports, Hardware Update
Compliance
reports, and Update Installation Results reports.
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