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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.

Warning

Notes

  • On agents running versions lower than 8.2 SP1, if you select the Create remediation artifacts check box to run the Patching Job, then you require write access to the helper server of the catalog.
  • 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.

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

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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:

For information about viewing the results of the remediation, see Viewing-Patching-Job-results.

Where to go from here

Patch-Remediation-Job-General

 

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