You can view information about the operating systems and applications installed on managed devices on the Summary Detail page.
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If your appliance has the Organization component enabled, and you want view information for the appliance, log in to the System Administration Console: http://appliance_hostname/system, or select System from the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page. |
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If your appliance does not have the Organization component enabled, or if you want to view organization-level information, log in to the Administrator Console : http://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information. |
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The appliance runs a report that displays the software installed on managed devices. See About reports.
You can subscribe to patches for the operating systems and applications on your managed devices.
Before you subscribe to and download patches, identify the operating systems and applications installed on managed devices, and verify patching requirements. See View details about operating systems and applications.
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Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information. |
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On the Patch Management panel, in the Subscriptions section, click the Define available patches link . |
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The Patch Status tab provides several details about the latest patch download and appliance disk space. Here you can also determine if newly downloaded patches should be marked as active or inactive by default. |
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Specify the settings in the Subscription tab. The operating systems and locales specified in the subscription control the patches that are downloaded. |
Download patches for the selected Windows operating systems. Click the edit button to manage the list of operating systems: . Select All Windows in Inventory to select the Windows operating systems based on managed devices. To ignore Windows operating system patches, select Disabled. Or, select the check boxes next to one or more Windows operating systems. | |
Download patches for the selected Mac operating systems. Click the edit button to manage the list of operating systems: . Select All Mac in Inventory to select the Mac operating systems based on managed devices. To ignore Mac operating system patches, select Disabled. Or, select the check boxes next to one or more Mac operating systems. | |
Download patches for the selected languages. Click the edit button to manage the list of locales: . Select All Locales to download patches regardless of the locale or select the check boxes next to one or more locales. |
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Specify the Application Patches settings. These settings are used to determine the patch status once the patch files are downloaded. This can be active, inactive or disabled. |
Subscribe to applications patches based on its vendor. Click the edit button to manage the selected types: . Select All Publishers to select patches from all available publishers. Or, select the check boxes next to one or more publishers. |
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Click and select a type of this subscription. You can choose to select All Classifications, to make it Disabled, or click Select Classification, and choose one or more of the existing values, as applicable: Critical Updates, Definition Updates, Feature Packs, Full Software, Hotfix, Security Updates, Service Packs, Tools, Update Rollups, Updates, and Upgrades. | |||
Click and select a severity of this subscription. You can choose to select All Severities, to make it Disabled, or click Select Severity, and choose one or more of the existing values, as applicable: Critical, Important, Low, Moderate, and Recommended. | |||
Download only those patches that match the selected labels. Click Manage Associated Labels to select the labels. | |||
Mark patches that have been superseded to the Inactive state after every download. Inactive Superseded Patches are identified with Inactive on the Patch Catalog page. | |||
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Selected patches are downloaded automatically at the next scheduled download time. If a patch does not match the subscription settings after download, it appears as Disabled. If a patch matches the subscription settings but it is either superseded or manually set to inactive, the state appears as Inactive.
Be aware that the first patch download might use a large amount of network bandwidth.
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If the Organization component is enabled on the appliance, log in to the appliance System Administration Console, https://appliance_hostname/system, or select System in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page, then select Settings > Control Panel. |
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Deletes patches and Windows Feature Updates that have not been deployed in the specified number of days. Patches and Windows Feature Updates that are marked as Inactive or Disabled are automatically deleted during the patch download process. |
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The action to take if the appliance is offline when the update process is scheduled to start. Clear the Offline Update option if the appliance is expected to be connected to the internet and can download patches or Windows Feature Updates directly. | |
Click Upload to load patch TAR files. | |
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For each type of updates (Signature, Feature Update Files, Patch Files), it provides a description and access to the available actions:
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Select schedule options for patch and Windows Feature Update signatures in the Schedule section. File signatures include the security bulletins and other files that define patches and Windows Feature Updates downloaded from Quest. |
Select None to prevent the downloading of patch and Windows Feature Update signatures. | |||
Select day to download patch or Windows Feature Update detection signatures every day, or select a day of the week to download once a week. | |||
On the nth of every month or on a specific month at HH:MM |
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Downloads packages after the signatures have been downloaded. This option is not available if Patching is disabled in the Configure File Downloads section. | |
Specifies the frequency with which packages are downloaded. This option is available only if Files detected as missing in the Configure File Downloads section is selected. | |
If you select this option, the appliance stops file downloads at the specified time. It does not start file downloads again until the next specified download time. When the download resumes, it starts up where it left off. Downloads that are incomplete might not appear on the Patch Catalog or Windows Feature Update Catalogpage. |
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To schedule patch detection and deployment for managed devices, see Creating and managing patch schedules. To schedule Windows Feature Update detection and deployment for managed Windows 10 devices, see Configure Windows Feature Update schedules.
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