User manual SYMANTEC ALTIRIS PATCH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 FOR LINUX V1.0

[. . . ] AltirisTM Patch Management Solution for Linux from Symantec User Guide Version 7. 0 SP2 AltirisTM Patch Management Solution for Linux from Symantec User Guide The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Legal Notice Copyright © 2010 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, Altiris, and any Altiris or Symantec trademarks used in the product are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation/reverse engineering. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Symantec Corporation and its licensors, if any. [. . . ] Click Save changes. Core Services page The Core Services page lets you configure where the software updates should be downloaded. You can also create custom severity levels to apply to software updates. (Patch Management Solution for Windows only) You can select any additional languages that you want to download with the Patch Management Import task. The settings that are defined on this page apply to all AltirisTM Patch Management Solutions. See "Configuring patch management Core Services settings" on page 25. See "Customizing severity levels" on page 26. Configuring Patch Management Solution for Linux Patch management vendor settings page 29 Table 5-1 Option Options on the Core Services page Description (Patch Management Solution for Windows only) Specifies the languages that you want to download. Managed Language To Location Specifies the location to which you want to download the software update packages. The default location is C:\Program Files\Altiris\Patch Management\Packages\Updates. If you change the location and you want to relocate existing software update packages, use the Check Software Update Package Integrity task. See "Checking software update packages integrity " on page 35. Download from staging (Patch Management Solution for Windows only) location Specifies the location to download packages from if you want to download them from a cache in a different location. For this functionality to work, the file structure in that location must be exactly the same as the folder structure under C:\Program Files\Altiris\Patch Management\Packages\Updates. Patch management vendor settings page This page lets you set up how you want vendor software updates distributed. Some of these settings are used as default values in the Software Update Policy Wizard . All new vendor software updates that are downloaded have these settings by default. If you change the settings, existing Software Update policies and packages are not updated with these defaults. You can force them to update by re-creating packages from the Patch Remediation Center page. Table 5-2 Option Verify authenticity of downloaded Software Updates Options on the Software Update Options tab of the vendor policies Description Checked by default, this option ensures that all software updates are certified. 30 Configuring Patch Management Solution for Linux Patch management vendor settings page Table 5-2 Options on the Software Update Options tab of the vendor policies (continued) Description Specifies when to update the target filters for all Software Updates. By default, the filter update is performed every 30 minutes. Option Patch Filter Update Interval Software Update Distribution Options The table shows the filter that the policy targets. The default target is All Linux Computers with Software Update Plug-in Installed Target. Table 5-3 Options on the Policy and Package Settings tab of the vendor policies Description Lets you specify after what time to delete software update packages that are no longer needed. Default: 1 week. Option Delete packages after Allow Package Server distribution This option is checked by default to ensure that package servers process software update packages. For more information on package servers, see the Symantec Management Platform User Guide. For more information on assigning packages to package servers, see the Symantec Management Platform User Guide. Use alternate download location on Package Server Use alternate download location on client Lets you specify a different location on a package server to which to download packages. This option is disabled for Linux computers. Table 5-4 Option Options on the Programs tab of the vendor policies Description Terminate after Lets you specify a time after which to terminate a running software update program. Configuring Patch Management Solution for Linux Default Software Update Plug-in Settings page 31 Table 5-5 Option Novell account credentials Options on the Novell Customer Center tab of the vendor policies Description (Novell policy only) Type the Novell Customer Center credentials. [. . . ] The page is comprised of a number of Web parts displaying results from commonly used reports. See "About Patch Management Solution for Linux reports" on page 45. If you want, you can add patch management Web parts to other configurable portal pages. You can access the home page by clicking Home > Software > Patch Management, and then, under Novell or under Red Hat, click Updates. [. . . ]