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6 If patch installation requires the appliance to reboot, click Summary, and click Reboot to reset the
appliance.
In the Available updates pane, you can see the changed update status of the appliance.
Enable Automatic Checks for vCenter Server Appliance Patches
You can congure the vCenter Server Appliance to perform automatic checks for available patches in the
congured repository URL at a regular interval.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface as root.
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Verify that you have congured the repository seings and that the current repository URL is
accessible. See “Congure the Repository for URL-Based Patching,” on page 104.
Procedure
1 In the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface, click Update.
2 Click .
3 Select Check for updates automatically, and select the day and time in UTC to perform automatic
checks for available patches.
4 Click OK.
The appliance performs regular checks for available patches in the congured repository URL. In the
Available updates pane, you can view information about the available patches. You can also view the
vCenter Server Appliance health status for notications about available patches. See vCenter Server Appliance
Conguration.
Patching the vCenter Server Appliance by Using the Appliance Shell
You can use the software-packages utility in the appliance shell of a vCenter Server Appliance that contains
a vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller, a vCenter Server with an external
Platform Services Controller, or a Platform Services Controller to see the installed patches, stage new
patches, and install new patches.
To perform ISO-based patching, you download an ISO image, aach the ISO image to the CD/DVD drive of
the appliance, optionally stage the available patches from the ISO image to the appliance, and install the
patches.
To perform URL-based patching, you optionally stage the available patches from a repository URL to the
appliance and install the patches. The vCenter Server Appliance is preset with a default VMware repository
URL for the build prole of the appliance. You can use the update.set command to congure the appliance
to use the default VMware repository URL or a custom repository URL, for example, a repository URL that
you previously built on a local Web server running within your data center. You can also use the proxy.set
command to congure a proxy server for the connection between the vCenter Server Appliance and the
repository URL.
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