ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack Planning Guide

Checklist
See the following checklist to install and use the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack.
Additional information about the procedures in this checklist is included later in this document, in the
HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack User Guide, and in the HP Systems
Insight Manager Installation and User Guide. Be sure to have this documentation available when
completing the procedures in this checklist.
If you encounter any issues while performing the tasks in this checklist, see the “Troubleshooting”
appendix in the user guide or to the release notes.
Pre-installation planning
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1. Ensure that all Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack requirements have been met. See
the “Requirements” chapter in the user guide.
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2. Determine the appropriate Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack infrastructure for your
server environment. See the “
Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack architecture” section
in this guide.
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3. If you choose to switch databases during an upgrade to use an existing Microsoft SQL Server
database, patch data from the previous database is not migrated. A full patch acquisition
must be performed to repopulate the patch repository. See the “Installation and
configuration” chapter in the user guide for instructions.
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4. Determine if you will use Microsoft® Internet Information Services (IIS) Certificate Services. If
so, see the “
Using an SSL certificate with IIS” section in this guide.
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5. Determine how VPM patch updates will be acquired, from either the VPM server or using the
VPM Acquisition Utility. See the “
Acquiring patch updates” section in this guide.
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6. Be sure that the target operating system is identified correctly in HP Systems Insight
Manager (HP SIM). To ensure that target systems can be properly identified in HP SIM:
o For ProLiant systems, install HP Management Agents.
o For third-party systems running Microsoft Windows®, configure for Windows
Management Instrumentation (WMI) access.
o For third-party systems running Linux, install and configure SNMP.
See the “
Preparing the target environment for Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack
access
” section in this guide.
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7. If you already have other ProLiant Essentials products installed, see the “Using the
Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack with other ProLiant Essentials products
” section in
this guide.
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8. Configure the following to ensure that the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack has
appropriate accessibility to function properly:
o Your proxy server and firewall must allow both FTP and HTTP access.
o The appropriate ports are must be open. See the “Troubleshooting” appendix in
the user guide for details.
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