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Patch Deployment

Remediation generates a number of deployment jobs which are used to apply a specific set of missing patches to a list of target servers. For each of those jobs, BMC Server Automation lets you control deployment behavior by defining deploy options.

You can set deploy options:

  • Individually — For each job, select the deploy options that should be used when generating Deploy Jobs during remediation. For more information about the options you can select, refer to the following topics describing Deploy Job behavior:
  • By Group — Specify an existing Deploy Job in the remediation options tab (in Deploy Options dialog) in the Remediation Editor. Its options are used as a template that is applied to all Deploy Jobs created during remediation.

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. The BMC Server Automation Console displays the execution status of the Deploy Jobs and a consolidated status summary of all the Deploy Jobs. For more information, see Enhanced view of Patching Job status.

Warning

Although an undo option is available for deployed patches, BMC neither supports nor recommends this action. The undo option, which depends on platform-specific operating system commands, can compromise the target server.

Note

On Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Vista, the Microsoft update service must be running for patching to work.

 

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