If you are already used to Automated Patch Deployment (APD) tasks, there might be few changes that you need to make a note so that you get to see the correct place for the information.
You would no longer need to look under configurations for checking the status of automated patch deployments; everything is made available right under the automated patch deployment instead.
From now on (post build number #70221), you will not see any configurations getting created for the APD tasks that you create. Instead, you will find everything under the task. For example, the APD task list will look like the one below :
And for every task, you will find these additional information: Scan Status, Deploy Status, Failed. The failed column denotes the number of patches that were failed to deploy for this particular task.
You will also find the systems to which a patch could not be installed in the “Missing Patches” view
The vulnerability summary of individual systems will include the details of failed patch installations along with the reason for failure.
One more noticeable change while creating an APD task is that, you can now select to deploy the patches only when all the missing patches are downloaded. If, for some reason, one of the patch could not be downloaded the complete task will be suspended till it gets downloaded.
Now, what happens when you create a task to scan, download and draft a configuration? Earlier, this task will create a configuration that you can access from the Configuration tab and deploy later. Now, you will have to click the task to view the task status page from where you can initiate the deployment. You will see a message at the top asking you to deploy the patches pertaining to this task:
To summarize:
What you will NOT See (post build #70221)
- Configurations for each APD task that you create.
- You will no longer see any configurations moving to suspended state and a new configuration getting created
What you will Additionally See
- Status of each APD task under APD view
- For each APD Task you will see Scan Status, Download Status and Failed Patch count.
- Missing patches that were failed to deploy with the details of the computers in the Missing Patches View
- You will also get the Failed Count from the “All Managed Systems View” on mouse over the Missing Patches count.
- Vulnerability Summary of the system will show the details of the failed patches with the reason for failure
