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Updating an existing catalog

Actions performed during update are platform-dependent:

For this platform

The following actions occur

Microsoft Windows
Solaris

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.

For more information, see the following sections:

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 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 to view the results of a Patch catalog Update Job:

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

 

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