The Patch Manager agent must be installed on any target device that you want to manage vulnerabilities for. You can do this using the HPCA
Enterprise Manager or using the installation from the Patch Manager media provided.
To accommodate Microsoft Update, your target devices must have the Windows Update Agent installed. This is part of the Patch Manager Agent Updates downloadable from the HP Patch Manager Update Site. The HP acquisition process automatically acquires the latest Windows Update Agent required for the Patch Manager Agent. The DISCOVER_PATCH Service will automatically apply the current Windows Update Agent to the managed device on the next agent connection.
For detailed installation instructions, refer to either the HPCA Enterprise Manager User Guide or the HPCA Application Manager and Application Self-service Manager Guide. For minimum system requirements, also refer to the HPCA Application Manager and Application Self-service Manager Guide for the appropriate operating system.
To install the Patch Manager Agent from the HPCA Enterprise Manager
The Patch Manager Agent is included automatically when you deploy the HPCA Agent from the Enterprise Manager Console to the device and device groups in your enterprise.
Deploying agents is performed from the Management tab of the Enterprise Manager Console using the Agent Deployment Wizard.
If you are using Patch Manager to manage Microsoft Windows devices you must have, at a minimum, Windows Installer version 3.1
pre-installed on the agent devices where Patch Manager is to run.
The recommended version of nvdkit for the Patch Manager devices is the build that is supplied with the HP Client Automation version 7.50 media.The absolute minimum nvdkit build required on a Patch Agent is 427. If your target devices do not meet this requirement, visit the HP Support web site.
For details on using the Enterprise Manager and the Agent Deployment Wizard, refer to the HPCA Enterprise Manager User Guide.
To install from the HP Client Automation Media for Windows Agents
• Navigate to the appropriate subdirectory for your operating system on the Agents folder of the HP Client Automation media. Double-click setup.exe. When prompted, select the Patch Manager feature.
To use the install.ini file for Windows Agents
• In the [PROPERTIES} section of the install.ini file, add the line
ADDLOCAL=NVDINSTALLPATCH.
After installing the agent, you will need to assign the appropriate services to the target devices.
To install the Patch Manager Agent on a Linux operating system
The minimum version of the Client Automation Agent that supports documented Patch Manager Agent version 7.50 functionality is Application Manager version 5.0; however, Application Manager version 7.50 is
recommended. The absolute minimum build of nvdkit on the Linux agent is build 446.
The Patch Manager’s maintenance file, maint.tar, contains the necessary agent files needed to enable the Patch Manager Agent. At the time of this writing, the Patch Manager Agent is supported on the following operating systems for Version 7.80.
• Linux - RedHat: Enterprise versions of Red Hat version 4.x on releases
AS, ES, and WS, and version 5.x on server and client releases are supported for x86 (32-bit Intel) and x86-64 (Opteron/EMT64) architectures.
• Linux - SuSE: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) versions 9, 10 and
11 are supported on x86 (32-bit) architecture as well as on x86-64 (AMD64 and Intel EM64T) architectures. SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) versions 10 and 11 are supported on x86 (32-bit) architecture as well as x86_64 (AMD64 and Intel EM64T architectures.
The Patch Manager Agent is not supported on HP-UX or Sun Solaris (SPARC) operating systems.
The Patch Manager agent maintenance file (maint.tar) is located with the Patch Manager media in the following operating system-specific directory.
— Patch Agent Maintenance\linux\ram
The supplied maint.tar files provided in the operating system-specific folders on the installation media are not interchangeable among device platforms.
To install the Patch Manager agent for RedHat and SuSE Linux from the HPCA Enterprise Manager
At a minimum, HP Client Automation Application Manager 5.00 is required to enable reboot management capabilities, and resume patch management processing after a reboot. To use this feature, the HPCA Scheduler Daemon (radsched) must be enabled as a system Service. Installation of the agent daemons as system services can be performed as a post installation task during the installation of the Application Manager agent. For additional information on UNIX agent post installation tasks, refer to the HPCA Application Manager and Application Self-Service Manager Installation and Configuration Guide (HPCA Application Manager and Application
Self-Service Manager Guide).
For information concerning the installation of Client Automation agents from HPCA Enterprise Manager, refer to the HPCA Enterprise Manager User Guide and the HPCA Application Manager and Application Self-service Manager Guide.
To install from the HP Client Automation Media for RedHat and SuSE Linux
Navigate to the appropriate subdirectory for your operating system on the installation media. Start the installer using the UNIX ./install command
line and select the Patch Manager agent feature. Refer to the HPCA
Application Manager and Application Self-Service Manager Guide for UNIX for more details.
At a minimum, Application Manager 5.00 is required to enable reboot management capabilities, and resume patch management processing after a reboot. To use this feature, the HPCA Scheduler Daemon (radsched) must be enabled as a system Service. Installation of the agent daemons as system services can be performed as a post installation task during the installation of the Application Manager agent. For additional information on UNIX agent post installation tasks, see the HPCA Application Manager and Application Self-Service Manager Guide for UNIX.