RBAC permissions for patch management

To create Patching Jobs and to deploy patches, the patch administrator must be assigned a role that includes the necessary permissions.

To facilitate division of responsibilities, you can assign permissions to one role or split between several roles.

RBAC permissions for managing patches

Ensure that the patch administrator has the following permissions.

Defining permissions for	Gives the user the ability to
AIXPatchSoftware.Read DepotFolder.Read (on the depot folder where the Catalog is stored) JobFolder.Read,Write (To create the Patching Job(s) inthe Job folder) LinuxSoftware.Read PatchCatalog.Read PatchCatalog.Write (for Solaris and AIX only) PatchingJob.* PatchSmartGroup.Read Server.Read (only requires read to run the patching job) ServerGroup.Read SolarisSoftware.Read SolarisSoftware.Create WindowsSoftware.Read	Perform all operations related to Patch Analysis Jobs (only Patch Analysis, not Patch Remediation)
AIXPatchSoftware.Read BatchJob.* BlPackage.* CustomSoftware.* (for Linux only) DeployJob.* DepotFolder.Read,Write (in the folder to create all the packages) DepotGroup.Read JobFolder.Read,Write LinuxSoftware.Read PatchCatalog.Read PatchSmartGroup.Read PatchingJob.Read PatchDownloadJob.* PatchRemediation.* Server.Read,Deploy ServerGroup.Read (to find servers) SolarisSoftware.Read SolarisSoftware.Modify WindowsSoftware.Read WindowsSoftware.Modify Note: SolarisSoftware.Modify and WindowsSoftware.Modify permissions are optional. Even if the role assigned to the administrator does not have modify permissions on software objects in the depot, the remediation jobs are completed with warnings.	Perform all operations related to Patch Remediation Jobs (including their Deploy Jobs)
PatchGlobalConfig.Read PatchGlobalConfig.Modify	Modify Patch Global Configuration settings
ACLPolicy.* (This permission is only required if ACL policies used in catalog must be created because they do not already exist). ACLPolicy.Read AixPatchSoftware.* DepotFile.* (for offline catalogs, users must be able to create depot files) DepotFolder.Read,Write (users must have read/write privileges in a depot folder to create the catalog) JobFolder.Read,Write (in the case of a download job, this access is a minimum requirement) PatchCatalog.* PatchSmartGroup.* PatchDownloadJob.* ServerGroup.Read,Browse (required on the helper servers) SolarisSoftware.* WindowsSoftware.* AIXPatchSoftware.* LinuxSoftware.*	Perform all operations related to Catalog Update Job for Windows/Solaris/Linux/AIX

RBAC permissions for patch management

RBAC permissions for managing patches

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