Patch Management Solution for Dell Servers

Often You might run into circumstances where a PMImport has run and Software Update Advertisements get disabled. The tough part about this is that there is no easy way to know that, until your patching cycle completes and you find out that there were revisions to a bulletin and the update advertisement was disabled.

Why do I see the same installer listed 3 times when I created the Software Update Tasks for MS08-053? See the graphic below.

Ensure inventory summary reporting is disabled to prevent managed computers generating unnecessary events by repeatedly sending the same information to the Notification Server. This field is disabled by default.

Disable Send package events and Send status events to stop the agent from sending events to the server. Sending events can add significant overhead to your network.

Each time a policy or update collection schedule runs, it generates events that increase the load on the Notification Server. To conserve network resources, this tech tip will help you set policies that are used by Patch Management Solution for Dell Servers to run at longer intervals. Note that this applies to Patch Management Solution 6.2 SP1 for Dell Servers.

This article explains the process of manually creating an environment -- without the help of an Internet connection -- ready to use Patch for Dell Servers 6.2. There was an older version for 6.1 that automated the updates of patches but this guide goes through setting up the relevant folders and making the system ready to deploy the patch agent and push Dell patches for version 6.2 of Patch for Dell Servers.