Providing Patch Management With N-central - N-able Technologies

N-central 7.2 Providing Patch Management With N-central
To display the WSUS servers managed by N-central
1. On the menu bar, click Setup > Patch Management > WSUS Servers.
The WSUS Server Management screen appears.
To add a new WSUS server to the list of WSUS servers managed by N-central
Note: The following procedure can only be performed at the customer level. Select the appropriate
customer in the navigation pane to continue. For more information, refer to Navigating N-central.
1. On the menu bar, click Setup > Patch Management > WSUS Servers.
2. Click Add.
The Add WSUS Servers dialog box that appears will instruct you to install an agent on the
WSUS server itself (and provides a link for downloading a Windows agent). N-central's asset discovery
mechanism will automatically add the server to the list.
Note: If the WSUS server is publicly-accessible, you must change the Network Address of the
WSUS server in N-central from the private IP address to a public IP address.
To force N-central to detect WSUS on a device already managed by N-central
1. Navigate to the appropriate customer.
2. Click All Devices View in the navigation pane.
3. Click on the name of the device that is the WSUS server.
The Device Properties screen appears.
4. Select the Asset tab.
5. Click Update Now.
When the discovery job is completed, the WSUS server will be included in the list displayed on the
WSUS Server Management screen.
Previously-configured WSUS Servers
For N-central to manage devices in WSUS, client-side targeting must be disabled in the WSUS UI by performing
the following:
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