Patch Management Using Metadata

HPCA provides a lightweight model for acquiring and delivering patch updates to your Agent devices. Because the model only uses Metadata to perform the patch scans on your agents, it is called Patch Management using Metadata.

The chapter discusses the concepts, configuration and implementation details needed to take advantage of Patch Management using Metadata.

Patch Management using Metadata is only available for:

Note: To use the Metadata model for Java patches, download all Java (JDK or JRE) patches manually before creating an acquisition job and make sure that all patches are available at a specific location. HP recommends to maintain a single location to download all patches.


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