Updating an existing catalog

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This topic discusses how to update an existing patch catalog. It includes the following sections:

What gets updated?
To update the existing catalog
To view Patch catalog update job results
To exclude an entire smart group from a Patch catalog (Microsoft Windows only)
To exclude a single patch from the catalog tree view (Microsoft Windows only)

What gets updated?

The actions performed during an update are platform dependent:

For this platform	The following actions occur
Microsoft Windows Solaris Ubuntu	Downloads and refreshes metadata files downloaded from the vendor website as well as updating metadata for existing depot objects in the catalog. If the catalog is defined to permit download of payloads during an Update Job, payloads are also downloaded for newly added patches.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Downloads payloads only from the vendor website. There is no patching metadata on the Red Hat website.
AIX SUSE Linux Enterprise Oracle Enterprise Linux	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.

To update the existing catalog

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.

To view Patch catalog update job results

After the Patch catalog is updated, you can do the following steps to view the results of a Patch catalog Update Job:

Right-click the catalog and select Open.
Click the Results tab to view the results of the job runs.
Right-click the job run in the Results tab and select Show Log to see the log for this job run.

To exclude an entire smart group from a Patch catalog (Microsoft Windows only)

To exclude an entire smart group from a Patch catalog, perform the following steps:

Select a Catalog - Smart Group that you want to exclude.
Right-click and select Exclude Patch From Server.

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 (Microsoft Windows only)

To exclude a single patch from the catalog tree view, perform the following steps:

Select a catalog and navigate to the patch that you want to exclude.
Right-click and select Exclude Patch From Server.

The smart group will be excluded during the next patch analysis. This option is available only for Windows servers.