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N-central 7.2 Providing Patch Management With N-central If you selected Approved for Install, you will need to Specify your target devices (or device groups) by navigating through the list of folders and choosing the service organization, customer and folder (or folders) for which the associated devices will have the patch installed. Note: The target devices tree is hierarchical in nature so that selecting a folder at one level will apply the patches to matching folders at all levels below the one that is selected (including new devices as they are added). Icons in the target devices tree indicate selections as follows: Approved for Install Not Approved No Change Indicates that approved patches will be installed on all devices associated with the folder. Indicates that approved patches will not be installed on all devices associated with the folder. Indicates that existing patch approvals should not be altered for devices associated with the folder. 6. Click 3. Set Installation Deadlines (if applicable) or Next Step to proceed. If applicable, the Set Installation Deadline screen appears. If no deadline setting is available, skip to step 11. 7. Specify the deadline options for the patches from one of the following: • None • Custom If you selected Custom, you will need to specify the Date and Time that will be the deadline by which all approved patches must be installed. Click in the respective fields to select Date and Time values. 8. Click 4. Review and Accept EULAs (if applicable) or Next Step to proceed. If applicable, the Review and Accept EULAs screen appears. If no EULAs are provided for the accepted patches, skip to step 11. 9. Click EULA beside the name of the patch to read its End User License Agreement. When the EULA is displayed, click Accept or Decline in the dialog box to indicate acceptance or refusal of the agreement. You can also select the check box next to the patch (or patches) to accept a EULA without displaying it. Tip: You can select the check box next to Accept EULA to indicate acceptance of the EULAs for all of the patches. 10. Click 5. Confirmation (if applicable) or Accept EULA and Approve Patches to proceed. The Confirmation screen appears. 11. Click Finish. - 26 -
N-central 7.2 Providing Patch Management With N-central The Select Patches screen appears. Note: At any time during the Patch Deployment Wizard, you can click Back to review previous stages of the procedure. Automatically Approving Patches Creating Patch Approval Rules allows N-central to automatically approve patches for you that meet specific criteria – saving you and your technicians time and effort. Note: Patch Approval Rules are stored and run on the N-central server. They are not passed on as an automatic approval rule to the WSUS server. Patch Approval Rules are created and applied through N-central which then passes the approval to the WSUS server. Automatic Patch Approval Rules can be created at the Product Administrator, Service Organization and Customer levels. Editing and deleting rules is restricted by the level at which they are created: • Rules created at a higher level can be used but not edited or deleted by lower level accounts. • Rules created at a lower level can be edited or deleted by higher level accounts. It is important to note that patches that require EULA consent cannot be approved using Automatic Patch Approval Rules; those patches must be approved manually so that the EULA can be reviewed and accepted. Rules can be enabled or disabled to allow further temporary suspension. N-central also allows you to run a Rule on-demand. The Rule status will be indicated by one of the following icons: Enabled Disabled Warning - This automatic approval rule has no groups associated. This warning is displayed when a rule is not associated with any valid groups (for example, if a group has been removed after the rule was created). The rule will not be applied and must be edited to associate it with a valid group. To add an Automatic Patch Approval rule 1. On the menu bar, click Setup > Patch Management > Automatic Approvals. The Automatic Patch Approval Rules screen appears. 2. Click Add. The Add Automatic Patch Approval Rule screen appears. 3. Configure the properties of the rule: Name A unique identifier for the rule. - 27 -
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