Creating a Patching Job

A Patching Job includes the following:

  • Analysis — The Patching Job checks the configuration of target servers and determines which patches are needed.
  • (Optional) Creation of remediation artifacts — The Patching Job performs the following actions:
    1. (Microsoft Windows, Solaris only) Downloads the required payload
    2. Packages the payload as a BLPackage

    3. Creates a Deploy Job

      Note

      The Patching Job creates the Deploy Job. The Deploy Job executes according to the schedule you define for Deploy Jobs. 
      By default, the patching job creates the Deploy Job but does not run it. However, if users schedule a Deploy Job as part of a Patching Remediation Job to execute immediately (using the Execute Now option), the Deploy Jobs are chained to the parent Patching Job, and the parent Patching Job is marked as complete only after the Deploy Job finishes execution.
       If you have permission for the analysis part of a Patching Job, then you also have permission for the remediation part of the job.

For more information on creating Patching Jobs, see the following sections:

Before you begin

You need to enable the required permissions for anyone responsible for creating and executing the patching job, see Role-based-permissions-for-creating-and-running-a-patching-job for the list of permissions. In addition, ensure that anyone who can view results of the Patching Job, has the DepotObject.Read permission enabled for the patch catalog that is used for the analysis.

On Windows, ensure that the following services are enabled:

  • Windows Update Service (On Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7)
  • Remote Registry Service

In addition, ensure that the user who runs the Patch Analysis Job has Admin Share Access (admin$) and read/write privileges for the relevant folders.

(Solaris Only) For an agent running on a target server in single-user mode, to mount a source location using the NFS transmission protocol, the following actions must be performed before deployment:

  • Enable NFS client services on the target server.
  • Change the server property setting, DEPLOY_ALLOW_NFS_DURING_SUM, to true.

For more information, see Using NFS to mount a location while running single-user mode.

To create a Patching Job

  1. In the Jobs folder, navigate to the folder where you want to create a Patching Job.
  2. Do one of the following actions:
    • Right-click and select New > Patching Job > platformName Patching Job. For example, Microsoft Windows Patching Job, Solaris Patching Job.
    • Right-click a specific server and select Patch Analysis.
    • Right-click a catalog and select Analyze Using This Catalog.
  3. Provide information for the Patching Job as described in the following topics.

 

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