User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VCM Installation and Getting Started Guide
- Updated Information
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installing VCM
- Using Installation Manager
- Installing and Configuring the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Installing the Operating System Provisioning Server
- Preparing Boot Images for Windows Provisioning
- Copy the VCM Certificate to the OS Provisioning Server for Linux Provisioning
- Importing Distributions into the OS Provisioning Server Repository
- Configuring the OS Provisioning Server Integration with the VCM Collector
- Maintaining Operating System Provisioning Servers
- Upgrading or Migrating vCenter Configuration Manager
- Upgrade and Migration Scenarios
- Prerequisites
- Back up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Back up Your Certificates
- Software Supported by the VCM Collector
- Migration Process
- Prerequisites
- Foundation Checker Must Run Successfully
- Use the SQL Migration Helper Tool
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace your existing 32-Bit Environment with the Supported 64-bit Environment
- How to Recover Your Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Migrate a 32-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a 64-bit environment running VCM 5.3 or earlier to VCM 5.4
- Migrate a split installation of VCM 5.3 or earlier to a single-server install...
- After You Migrate VCM
- Upgrade Process
- Upgrading Existing Windows Agents
- Upgrading Existing Remote Clients
- Upgrading Existing UNIX Agents
- Upgrading VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verifying Available Domains
- Checking the Network Authority
- Assigning Network Authority Accounts
- Discovering Windows Machines
- Licensing Windows Machines
- Installing the VCM Windows Agent on your Windows Machines
- Performing an Initial Collection
- Exploring Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started Collecting Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, License, and Collect Oracle Data from UNIX Machines
- Customize VCM for your Environment
- How to Set Up and Use VCM Auditing
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Getting Started with VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Remote
- Getting Started with VCM Patching
- Getting Started with Operating System Provisioning
- Getting Started with Software Provisioning
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Accessing Additional Compliance Content
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Troubleshooting Problems with VCM
- Index
Getting Started with VCM Patching
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Getting Started with VCM Patching
VCM Patching for Windows and UNIX/Linux
VCM Patching is the VCM patch assessment, deployment, and verification module, which ensures
continuous enterprise security through proactive compliance of the IT infrastructure. VCM Patching
ensures that your machines have the latest security patches and other software downloads. You can
evaluate each licensed machine in your network for the current Microsoft Security Bulletins or supported
UNIX/Linux Vendor Bulletins and deploy the recommended patches to each machine.
Before you patch Windows 2008 servers and Windows 7 machines, make sure the Windows Update
service is running (set to something other than Disabled) or the patch deployment will fail.
IMPORTANT For VCM Patching to correctly assess Windows systems, you must have a current collection
of File System, Hotfixes, Registry and Services data. VCM Patching uses the File System, Registry and
Services data to determine which applications that might require patches are installed and running, and
uses the Hotfixes data to determine which patches are already installed on which machines. VCM Patching
for UNIX/Linux collects the data when you perform an assessment.
VCM Patching for Windows
VCM Patching for Windows provides several features that help you deploy patches to remediate
Windows machines:
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Bulletins: The Bulletins section contains a list of Microsoft bulletins available to VCM Patching. These
bulletins can be listed by bulletin and by affected product.
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Assessment Templates: An Assessment Template contains one or more bulletins and, when run,
dynamically shows which machines require the patches described by each bulletin. You can create
templates easily in the Bulletin section by selecting bulletins or product names.
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Imported Templates: An imported template is a user-defined template that associates machines with
patches for deployment of those patches to the selected machines. Imported templates are available for
Windows and UNIX/Linux machines.
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VCM Patching Administration: Use VCM Patching Administration to configure patch deployment,
proxy server settings, and the conditions under which you want to receive an e-mail alert. You can
select the machines that VCM Patching will manage, add and update your VCM Patching license, and
view the status of jobs that are currently running, scheduled, and completed.
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