Add Patch Policy

Creates the patch policies. You can configure the detailed settings including communication interval and retry attempts for patch installation.

Add Patch Policy

You can add agent settings for adding patch policies as follows:

1. Select Policy/Advanced Rule.
2. Select the Policy tab.
3. Click Add.
4. Click Add > Patch Policy.
5. Configure the required settings in Add Patch Policy Settings.

• General Settings: You can configure the settings for communication interval, retry attempts, patch prevented time, or displaying the install progress.
• Patch Settings: You can specify the severity by patch type, allow the administrator to create the policies to apply to an agent, and enable or disable to apply patches to the selected targets.
• Operating Systems: Select the operating systems to distribute the patches.

6. Click Save to save the configured settings.
7. Configure a policy name and target to apply the policies from <Add Policy>.

Note

If you click OK without configuring targets, the policies are saved without applying.

• Name: Specify the name of policy.
• Target: Specify the target to apply the created policies.
• Description: Enter the description for the created policy.

8. Click OK.
9. When a message, Are you sure you want to apply the policy to the selected target? Appears, click Yes to apply the policies, or click No not to apply the policies.