Installation guide

Procedure
1. To modify the automatic patching settings, click Administration.
2. Click Settings > General Settings > Patching > UNIX > Additional Settings.
3. According to your patch assessment and deployment strategy, click Edit Setting for each of the
automatic patch deployment settings, then modify and save the setting.
Option Description
Automatic patch
deployment-
Automatically deploy
patches whenever
membership of
associated machine
groups changes
VCM deploys patches when you add a machine to a machine group
and the membership is updated for any machine group that is
associated with an automatic deployment. VCM begins the automatic
patch deployment, and the results are updated for static or dynamic
patching templates.
Automatic patch
deployment-
Automatically deploy
patches whenever
membership of
associated templates
changes
VCM deploys patches when new downloaded patch content matches
the filter used in a dynamic patching assessment template, or you edit
the template to change the bulletins included in it. VCM updates the
bulletin membership in the patch assessment template and triggers
an automatic patch deployment.
Automatic patch
deployment-
Automatically deploy
patches whenever patch
applicability changes
VCM deploys patches when you collect the patch status from
managed machines, and run a patch assessment on those machines. If
the machines are part of the machine group that is mapped to an
assessment template in the automatic deployment wizard, VCM
determines which managed machines require patches and begins the
automatic patch deployment. If the template is assessed after a
collection, the change in patch applicability triggers an automatic
patch deployment.
Automatic patch
deployment-Default
threshold data age
(days)
Sets the patching data age threshold, in days, for the collected patch
data, which defines how old the collected patch data can be before
VCM deploys the patches. When the data age of the bulletin is
greater than the threshold data age, VCM does not deploy the
patches. You must run a new collection and assessment to update the
data age for the patch bulletin.
4. Review the additional patching settings, and make any changes required for your environment.
a. Set the patching content download to match the licensed platform types.
b. Set the default machine group mapping path for temporary files during patch deployment.
c. Set the default machine group mapping location for patch deployments.
d. Set the default Linux and UNIX repository host, path, and SCR base path.
e. Define the platforms for which patching content is downloaded and parsed.
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