User`s guide

Procedure
1. Select Patching > UNIX/Linux Platform > Assessment Results > All Bulletins to display the patch
status of all of the machines that were assessed.
2. To display the assessment results for a single bulletin, select By Specific Bulletin and select a bulletin
in the center pane.
3. Review the patch status for each machine.
Patched: The patch has been applied to the machine.
Patch-Machine Mismatch: The patch OS version or hardware architecture does not match the
machine.
Patch Not Needed: The machine is up-to-date or the intended software product is not installed on
the machine.
Not Patched: The patch was not applied to the machine.
Error Occurred: An unexpected condition occurred during the assessment of the machine.
Additional information about the root cause of the exception can be determined by running the Debug
Event Viewer at C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Tools\ecmDebugEventViewer.exe.
Signature Not Found: The .pls patch file does not exist on the machine, and therefore the patch
status cannot be determined.
Incorrect MD5: The MD5 Hash generated from the patch signature (.pls) file, which contains the
content and signature, does not match the expected value on the UNIX/Linux Agent. Be aware that
MD5 is NOT validated against the vendor MD5 hash data.
Patch Status Unknown: The patch status of the machine cannot be determined.
If machine data has not been collected, the assessment results might not appear and the machine will not
be available for deployment. If this situation occurs, a patch-machine mismatch status will result. You can
display or hide the patch-machine mismatch status in Patching >VCM Patching Administration > UNIX >
Settings > Bulletin and Update.
Acquire the UNIX Patches
After you review the assessment results and determine which patches to deploy, use FTP, HTTP, or
another available method to acquire the UNIX patches from the appropriate vendor.
Store the UNIX Patches
Store the UNIX patches in a location that is available locally to the VCM-managed machine, such as an NFS
mount or a local hard drive. If you store the patches on an NFS mount, you must define the path in
Patching > VCM Patching Administration > Machine Group Mapping. You can use VCM remote
commands or another available method to place the patches on the VCM-managed machines.
Patch Repository Management
You must manage your own patch repository. A temporary expansion of the patches occurs in the /tmp
directory. For single-user mode, patches are extracted to /var/tmp. If you do not use Machine Group
Mapping to define an alternate location for the patches, the default location of /tmp is used.
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