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a. Select Stage patches manually, and set the time and date for patch staging.
b. Select whether to have VCM deploy the patches to target managed machines immediately or later,
and set the time and date for patch deployment.
10. Set the reboot schedule options and click Next.
a. Select whether to reboot the managed machine after VCM installs the patches.
b. If you have VCM reboot the machine, set the reboot message and delay.
11. Confirm the patch deployment summary and click Finish to deploy the patches.
After you deploy the patches, VCM collects patch assessment data again to confirm that the patches
were applied.
12. In the user-defined assessment template data grid, click Assess to run another patch assessment, and
verify that the patch status is Patched in the assessment results for the patched managed machines.
If a managed machine is in a pending reboot state, the patch status for the machine is Not Patched.
What to do next
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For more information about using the Deploy wizard and scheduling patch deployments for Windows
managed machines, see the online help.
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To view the status of the patch deployment job, click Patching and select Job Management > UNIX>
Job Manager > Running.
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If you scheduled the job to run later, to view the status of the scheduled deployment, click Patching and
select Job Management > UNIX> Job Manager > Scheduled > Deployments.
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VCM retains the Linux and UNIX patching change actions in the change log. These actions are available
in VCM Compliance and VCM Reports. You can view the patch assessment changes by data type in the
Change Management node of the VCM Console. VCM Change Management reports changes on the
Patch Assessment and Patch Deployment data types.
Getting Started with VCM Manual Patching for Windows Managed
Machines
Use VCM to manually assess the patch status of Windows managed machines, and deploy patches to
those machines.
To configure your environment for automated patching with VCM 5.7, see "Configuring An Automated
Patch Deployment Environment" on page 156.
Prerequisites
To deploy patches to Windows managed machines, you must understand patch deployment actions and
perform several prerequisite tasks. See "Prerequisite Tasks and Requirements" on page 138.
Procedure
1. "Check for Updates to Windows Bulletins" on page 151
Use VCM to check for updates to patch bulletins on the Internet, which you can use in patch
assessments of managed machines to enforce compliance.
2. "Download Patches for Windows Patch Deployment" on page 152
You can download patches for deployment to Windows managed machines based on the bulletins
included in a patch assessment template.
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