Patching Job - General


On the General tab, you can enter following basic information about a Patching Job:

Name

Enter the name of the Patching Job.

NEW IN 21.02(For Windows Patching jobs) When you create an Analysis job with the auto remediate option enabled, name of the created remediation job is appended with the date and timestamp values. If the characters in the name exceed 260, the Remediation job fails. To avoid this issue, the remediation job name after 30 characters is truncated.

Description

Enter some information about the Patching Job.

Save in

Select a folder where you would want the job to be stored.

Specify a Catalog

Browse to and select a patch catalog.

Unlimited

Select this to have the job to run in parallel on as many target servers as possible.

Limited

Select this to have the job to run in parallel on a specific number of target servers.

Set Execution Override

Select when the Patching Job always execute as the user, BLAdmin, and the role, BLAdmins.

Clear Execution Override

Select when the Patching Job always execute using the user and role that scheduled the job.

Where to go from here

Proceed to one of the following, based on environment:

Patching-Job-Analysis-Options-for-Microsoft-Windows

Patching-Job-Analysis-Options-for-Solaris

Patching-Job-Analysis-options-for-AIX

Patching-Job-Analysis-Options-for-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-Oracle-Enterprise-Linux-and-SUSE-Linux-Enterprise

Patching-Job-Analysis-Options-for-Ubuntu

Patching-Job-Analysis-Options-for-Debian

 

 

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