ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack Planning Guide

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4. Verify that operating system and hardware information for target systems is displayed
correctly in HP SIM. If this information is not displayed correctly, verify that the
HP Management Agents are installed and configured correctly, and then perform
another discovery. Alternately, the operating system and hardware information can be
manually updated in HP SIM.
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5. Configure your Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack settings. See the “Installation and
configuration” chapter in the user guide.
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6. Determine which operating systems you will be patching so that appropriate patch updates
can be acquired.
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7. If Red Hat patches will be applied, verify the Red Hat library, compat-libstdc++, is installed
on the Red Hat target systems.
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8. If Red Hat patch acquisitions will be run from VPM or the VPM Acquisition Utility, configure
Red Hat Enterprise Linux acquisition settings. See the “Installation and configuration” chapter
in the user guide.
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9. Optionally, if the VPM Acquisition Utility will be used, configure the utility with the
appropriate patch source, directory structure, and proxy information. See the “
Acquiring
patch updates
” section in this guide.
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10. Acquire the latest Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack updates. Progress of the
acquisition can be monitored at C:\Program Files\HP\VPM\Radia\IntegrationServers\
logs\patch-acquire.log. See the “Installation and configuration” chapter in the user guide.
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11. Determine the time and frequency to perform regular patch acquisitions to ensure that the
Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack is always up to date with the latest security
information. See the “
Acquiring patch updates” section in this guide.
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12. Apply VPM licenses to servers and client systems that will be used with VPM. See the
“Licensing” chapter in the user guide.
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