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BMC Server Automation 8.7 ... Using Patch management Preparatory tasks for patch management Setting up the Offline Patch Downloader utility

Patch Downloader utility for Microsoft Windows

The Patch Downloader utility for Microsoft Windows, provided by BMC, uses a configuration file that contains the following information:

  • Definition of a proxy server (if one is used)
  • Identification of a local, temporary directory on the server that is used by the Patch Downloader utility during download
  • Filter definitions which determine the metadata and payload that is downloaded from the Shavlik Technologies website

Note

To run the patch downloader utility, you have the option of using windows_downloader.bat on a Windows machine or windows_downloader.sh on a UNIX machine.

The following topics explain how to build the configuration files and how to use the downloader utility for Windows:

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Last modified by Fran Coughlin on Jun 01, 2016
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