Configure Patch Management

Before setting up an HPCA environment to include patch management, your HPCA databases should be appropriately configured. For details, see the HP Client Automation Enterprise Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Patch management implementation involves setting up the Core and Satellite servers, and then using the Core Console to configure the vendor and acquisition-related settings, and begin patch acquisitions.

Use HPCA to deploy and manage Microsoft, RedHat, and SuSE patches, Adobe patches, Java patches, and HP Softpaqs. Configure the server architecture using the following procedure:

  1. Create a SQL database for patch and inventory report data.
  2. Define an ODBC DSN.
  3. Install a Core server and configure the following:
  4. Note: When the Patch ODBC settings are saved in the Core Console, the Core server automatically runs an initial synchronization between the Patch Management database and the Core Configuration Server Database.

  5. Install a Satellite server (recommended).

Completing the above tasks creates the HPCA server environment for Patch Management.


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