Patch Gateway Operations

The Patch Gateway Operations settings are available if the Patch Metadata Download option is enabled from the Patch Distribution page.

Note: The Patch Gateway Operations discussed in this section are applicable for the Patch Gateway on the Core server only. See Satellite Console Patch Management for the Patch Gateway Operations available on the Satellite server.

Use these settings to enable the gateway.

Once enabled, additional entries allow you to configure it for caching and managing the patch binaries.

The Patch Gateway is required to use the Patch Metadata Download option for the lightweight patching of Microsoft Agents with one of the Microsoft Update Catalog data feeds.

The role of the Patch Gateway is to download, cache and deliver the actual patch binary data to the Agents when Enable Download of Patch Metadata only is turned on. There is an optional Gateway preload option that allows patch binaries to be cached into the gateway on acquisition, as opposed to when they are requested from the agents.

When Enable Gateway is checked, the following fields are available:


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