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Named Policies (“Install Required” command)
To get started, select your UpdateEXPERT machine and open the Policy Editor for the Default policy as follows; Policy > Open > Default > Open. You may now check one or more patches as required (example below). At this point, you should be in the Policy Editor for “Default”, as shown below. Checking an update makes it “global” in the sense that it will update all applicable machines (ignoring nonapplicable machines) when you do Install Required. Policy > New lets you create additional named policies if you wish. Once policies are created and saved (Policy Editor > Save), use rightclick > Assign Policy to associate a named policy to your machine.
Before deploying required updates, let’s run a conformance report to see if your machine is “out ofcompliance” (as it should be, until patched). Basically, we need to 1) “check” an update for the Default Policy (and save it), 2) assign the Default policy to the machine, 3) configure Conformance Report options, and 4) run the report. So, pick a “notinstalled” patch for your machine, check the patch in the Policy Editor in either machine or Research View (as explained next), and assign the Default policy to your machine. Then see Conformance Reporting (below).
With your machine selected, do View > Research View or click the button circled below, to switch to Research View, which is a list of every patch available in the UpdateEXPERT database. Required Updates can be specified here also. Most patches apply to multiple platforms. When you check/uncheck the patch, multiple line items will be automatically checked/unchecked for you, for multiple platforms. Below, as an example, we selected 898060 for Windows XP (yellow). Unchecking any one of them unchecks them all.
Note: Use the Checkmark button to filterout all but the checked items. Go back to the machine detail view by deselecting the button circled above (the button highlight goes away).
June 19th, 2006 | UpdateEXPERT Premium v7.01 Evaluation Guide | 16 |
