Monitoring deployment

Patch management automatically undertakes all steps from downloading, assigning to installing patches. You can monitor the deployment process in real-time to follow its progress. To do so, proceed as follows:

1. Go to Patch Management > Patch Deployment > Your Patch Group and select the Patches tab to follow the download progress.Before being deployed to a device, patches must be downloaded first.
2. When all patches have the status Available go to Your Patch Group > Assigned Objects > Devices in the left window pane to follow the progress of the patch deployment.

   In this table you can follow the actual patching progress for the device via the Details column. The final status is either

   • Reboot may be necessary if all patches were installed but a restart of at least one device is required before proceeding,
   • Some patches failed if at least one patch could not be installed on at least one device or
   • an empty field for a successful installation.
   A window appears of the selected device informing the user that a patch will be deployed. The installation is in Quiet Mode which means that the patch is installed automatically and no interference of the user is required.
3. Wait until the device has the status Patch group successfully installed , that is, that the Details box becomes empty.
    After the installation the device is immediately scanned for patches again and the list of Missing Patches and Installed Patches is updated.
4. To verify the successful installation go to Missing Patches and Installed Patches of Patch Detection > Scanned Devices > Your Scanned Device .
    Notice that the deployed patches have disappeared from the Missing Patches view and moved to the Installed Patches .

You installed patches on a particular device and thereby made the device more secure. To further improve security install other missing patches that affect your device.