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BMC Customers using Automation for Patching use cases depend on OS vendors for Patches and metadata. To view a document that tracks the service status of the different OS Vendors as known to BMC Support, see the following BMC Communities document:
This topic discusses how to update an existing patch catalog. It includes the following sections:
The actions performed during an update are platform dependent:
For this platform | The following actions occur |
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Microsoft Windows | Downloads and refreshes metadata files downloaded from the vendor website as well as updating metadata for existing depot objects in the catalog. |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Downloads payloads only from the vendor website. There is no patching metadata on the Red Hat website. |
AIX | Regenerates metadata for the depot objects in the Patch catalog. |
Tip
If you change filtering options for an existing catalog, patches that no longer match the new filters are marked as irrelevant. Irrelevant patches are not deleted automatically because they may be referenced in an Analysis Job or by a BLPackage. Instead, they are moved to the Irrelevant Patches smart group. To clean up the catalog and remove the irrelevant patches, right-click the catalog and select Remove Irrelevant Patches.
On the BMC Server Automation Console, right-click the Patch catalog and select Update Catalog.
The Catalog Update Job begins, using the filter criteria that you defined for the catalog. The Tasks in Progress view shows the current status of the job. The job is stored in the Jobs folder.
After the Patch catalog is updated, you can do the following steps to view the results of a Patch catalog Update Job:
To exclude an entire smart group from a Patch catalog, perform the following steps:
The smart group will be excluded during the next patch analysis. This option is available only for Windows servers. For more information about smart groups, see Smart groups in the patch catalog.
To exclude a single patch from the catalog tree view, perform the following steps:
The smart group will be excluded during the next patch analysis. This option is available only for Windows servers.