Manually remediating servers

Remediation is the process of downloading the payload for patches determined to be missing on one or more target servers and then applying that payload to the identified target servers to bring each one up to the required level.

If you select the create remediation artifacts check box during patching job definition, the process of packaging and deploying the payload is handled automatically according to a schedule you defined for the job.

However, when analysis results indicate that patches are missing, you can choose to remediate the target server using the following procedure.

Note

As part of the Remediation Job, Deploy and Batch Jobs are created but those jobs are not executed immediately. You can run Deploy Jobs according to a separate schedule and set them to run during maintenance windows.

To manually remediate a server

  1. At the end of analysis, right-click the patching job and select Show Results.
  2. Expand the analysis results from the root node and under Server View, right-click Successful targets and select Remediate All Server(s).

  3. Provide information for the remediation job as described in the following topics:

 

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