HP Vulnerability and Patch Manager 6.0 software Installation and Configuration Guide HP Part Number: 579548-001 Published: January 2010, First Edition

2 Requirements
Vulnerability and Patch Manger server requirements
The Vulnerability and Patch Manger server, the server on which Vulnerability and Patch Manager is installed,
must meet the following hardware and software requirements. Requirements listed for the Vulnerability and
Patch Manger server are independent of requirements for HP SIM and any other applications that coexist
on the Vulnerability and Patch Manger server. For specific hardware and software requirements for the HP
SIM server, see the HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide .
Infrastructure
A server environment using the Vulnerability and Patch Manger consists of the following components:
• Vulnerability and Patch Manger
• Systems Insight Manager
• Target systems
• VPM Acquisition Utility (installed on a separate system, optional)
You must install the Vulnerability and Patch Manger and Systems Insight Manager together on a single server
(referred to as a shared configuration). For this release, both the Vulnerability and Patch Manger and HP SIM
must operate on a Windows server.
In a shared server configuration, Vulnerability and Patch Manger and Systems Insight Manager are installed
on the same server. The following figure depicts a shared server configuration in which the Vulnerability
and Patch Manger server has Internet access to obtain patch and vulnerability updates.
The following figure depicts a shared server configuration in which the VPM Acquisition Utility is used to
obtain patch and vulnerability updates from the patch update sources.
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