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Viewing Missing Patches
The Missing Patches view provides the details of the patches that affects the applications/ systems in your network, which are not installed.
To view the list of the missing patches, click the Missing Patches link under the Patch Mgmt tab. You can filter the view based on the application and service pack by selecting the appropriate product and service pack.
The severity of the missing patches are depicted in a graph.
The details of the missing patches shown in the tabular format include:
Patch ID: A unique reference ID in Desktop Central for every patch
Bulletin ID: The advisory article provided by the vendor which contains information about the vulnerability and patch availability. Clicking this link, will lead you to the Bulletin Details view, which provides more info about the Bulletin and the vulnerability
Patch Name: The name of the patch. Clicking this link, will lead you to the Patch Details view, which provides more details about the patch.
Severity: Determines the importance of the patch. These severity ratings are as per the bulletin or advisory information.
Affected Systems: Refers to the total count of the systems that require this patch to be installed. This also includes the systems where the patch has already been installed.
Installed Systems: Refers to the count of the systems where the patch has been installed.
Missing Systems: Refers to the count of the systems that do not have the patches installed yet.
Action: You can initiate the following actions by clicking the icons:
- Scan the systems that do
not have the patch installed to reconfirm the status.
- To deploy the patch on
the missing systems. This opens the Installing
Patches Configuration with the patch added to the configuration; select
the targets and deploy.
You can install the patches in any of the following ways:
by clicking the icon of a patch
by selecting the patches to be installed and by clicking the Install Patches button.
Both the above operations, will open the Installing Patches Configuration, with the selected patches added. Select the targets and deploy the configuration.
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