KACE as a Service 7.1 - Administrator Guide

Option	Description
All Files	Download all available updates. If you change operating systems or acquire new Dell equipment frequently, it is best to keep all Dell Updates available.
Files detected as missing	Download only the updates that you need for your managed devices.
Catalog	Click Refresh Now to update the catalogs immediately.
Update Files	Click Delete to remove all update files.
Unused files	Click Delete Unused Files to remove only those files that are not needed. This helps to limit the amount of disk space used by update files.

In the Schedule section, select the following options:

Option	Description
None	Stop Dell Updates.
Every day/specific day at HH:MM	Run daily at a specified time, or run on a designated day of the week at a specified time.
Check for changes On the nth of every month/specific month at HH:MM	Run on the same day every month, or a specific month, at the specified time.

In the Download Blackout section, select options to limit the amount of time the Dell Updates can run.

You might want to enforce a hard stop at a specific time, for example, when your users start working or if bandwidth or network traffic is an issue.

Click Save.

Create Dell Update schedules

The K1000 can automatically identify and install the firmware and driver updates required for your Dell clients and servers according to the schedule you set. If the Organization component is enabled on your appliance, you create Dell Update schedules for each organization separately.

Consider creating labels to group Dell Updates and devices. You can then use those labels when you create Dell Update schedules. For example, you could create a label that groups updates by application families, such as drivers or firmware. Or, you could group all Dell servers running Microsoft Windows 7 into a single label and then run a patch schedule to update them. For more information about creating labels for updates and devices, see Using Smart Labels for patching.

Go to the Dell Updates page:

Log in to the K1000 Administrator Console, http://K1000_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.

On the left navigation bar, click Security, then click Dell Updates.

Optional: Review the available updates and inactivate the updates that you do not want to install.

Updates are available only if the appliance settings are configured to download Dell catalog updates.

To review and inactivate updates:

On the Dell Updates panel, click Catalog.

Select the check box next to an update.

Select Choose Action > Change Status to > Inactive.

Schedule inventory and updates.

This is similar to creating patch schedules in the Patch Management section. You can collect inventory independently, or as part of an inventory and update schedule that also installs the updates. Normally, inventory is performed automatically as part of a patch schedule.

To schedule inventory and updates:

On the left navigation bar, click Security, then click Dell Updates.

On the Dell Updates panel, click Schedules.

Select Choose Action > New.

Choose inventory and update options.

These options are similar to the options available for patch schedules. Normally, you create different schedules for the laptops, workstations, and servers, because these three types of devices have very different usage characteristics.