Installation guide

Procedure
1. Click Patching.
2. Select Windows > Assessment Templates and select the template used for the assessment.
3. Make sure the data grid view is visible so that you can view the machines and bulletins.
4. Locate the rows that display the StatusNotPatched status.
To identify the machines that must be patched, group the Patch Status column.
5. Highlight the row that contains the machine to be patched and select Deploy.
With VCM Service Desk Integration installed, the Service Desk Connector dialog box appears before
the VCM Patching Deploy wizard. VCM Orchestrator must approve the deployment job before it can
run.
6. (Optional) Select additional machine and patch combinations to include.
7. Select the machines and patches to deploy and click Next.
To detect the patch, the Deploy checks the Collector first, and uses the downloaded patch, if found. If
patches are not found, the Deploy wizard attempts to locate the patch on the Internet.
If the patch is found on the Internet, you can choose to download the patch immediately or at run
time.
If access to the Internet is denied, you must obtain the patches manually and store them in
\\collector_name\cmfiles$\SUM Downloads on the Collector.
8. If you selected multiple patches to deploy, confirm the order to deploy the patches or reorder them,
and click Next.
9. On the Switches page, do not select any switches for the installatio, and click Next.
10. On the Patch Staging and Deployment Schedule page, select to copy the patches to the VCM Patching
machine during deployment.
11. Select to run the deployment immediately or schedule it to run later, and click Next.
12. Click Next to either schedule the deploy job or to instruct VCM Patching to execute the job
immediately.
13. On the Reboot Options page, select to not reboot the machine and click Next.
14. On the confirmation page, click Finish to deploy the patch.
When the deployment completes, VCM Patching runs a delta collection of the VCM Patching Security
Bulletins filter set to update the assessment information.
What to do next
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To view the status of the deployment job, click Patching and select Job Management > Windows > 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 > Windows > Job Manager > Scheduled > Deployments.
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In the assessment template data grid view, run another assessment and confirm that the machines you
patched are marked as Patched in the assessment results. If a machine is in a pending reboot state, the
patch status for the machine is Not Patched.
For more information about scheduled patch deployments for Windows machines, see the online help.
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