Installation guide

IMPORTANT If a failure occurs at any time during the patch deployment job, the System Administrator
must check the status of the system, resolve any issues, then reassess the managed machines. In a job
chain, a failure in any step of the job breaks the job chain, which causes all subsequent job steps to not run.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your Linux and UNIX managed machines and operating systems are supported for patch
deployment. See the VCM Installation Guide.
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View the assessment results to verify that the patch assessments ran successfully.
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Verify that patches are available locally to the managed machines.
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Perform the prerequisite tasks. See "Prerequisite Tasks and Requirements" on page 138.
You can deploy patches from the assessment results for all bulletins, a user-created assessment template,
or an imported template. This procedure uses the Deploy wizard in the AllBulletins node to deploy the
patches.
Procedure
1. Click Patching and select Linux or UNIX platform > Assessment Results > All Bulletins.
2. Select the patches for VCM to deploy to managed machines.
3. Click Deploy.
4. Review the Recommend Action and Data Age, and select the machines and patches to deploy.
The data age is the number of days since the patch assessment was run on the managed machine. The
data age reflects the last time you collected patch assessment data from managed machines using the
Unix Patch Assessment data class with filters, a filter set or a filter set group, or ran a patch assessment
template.
5. Review the required patch list.
6. (Optional) To set the run level for the patch installation on Solaris managed machines, click Install
patches in single-user mode (run level 1 or S).
In single-user mode, a network is not available.
7. To review and update the command-line options and remote commands, click Advanced.
a. (Optional) To override the command-line options used to deploy the patches, type the command in
the platform type text box.
b. (Optional) To specify a pre-deployment remote command, select the Enable pre-deployment
Remote Command check box and type the command in the text box, or click the ellipsis and select
an existing remote command.
c. (Optional) To specify a post-deployment remote command, select the Enable post-deployment
Remote Command check box and type the command in the text box, or click the ellipsis and select
an existing remote command.
d. (Optional) To run the remote commands in the managed machine's current run level or in the run
level, select the appropriate run level option, click OK, and click Next.
8. If you selected multiple patches to deploy, verify that the order of patches is correct, or reorder them
and click Next.
9. Select the staging option and set the schedule for the patch deployment job and click Next.
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