Patch Acquisition and Core Patch Gateway Operations

Patch Acquisition using Metadata takes minutes as opposed to hours, on average, because it is lightweight—meaning only the patch information is downloaded and published to the CSDB.

  1. Use the Operations tab, Patch Management area to run an Acquisition.

    From the Console, click the Operations tab and go the Patch Management group. Select Start Acquisition.

    After acquisition, the CSDB only contains the patch metadata information and not the actual patch binary data.

  2. Optionally, you can view the status of an acquisition.

    From the Console, click the Operations tab. Expand the Patch Management group and click Report Acquisition Status.

  3. Entitle the Agents to the appropriate patches using the standard patch deployment procedures.

    The Patch Agent downloads the applicable binaries through the patch Gateway. The Gateway then caches the binary for other clients to use.

  4. Once the files are downloaded and cached on the Gateway, the available patches are listed on the Cache Content Details page

    To access this page from the Console, click Operations and select Patch Manager, Gateway Operations, and Cache Content Details.


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