GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR KBOX:Preparation for Patch Management

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Today’s Areas of Focus

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Step 1: Subscribe & Download

When setting up to test your Kbox, please make sure and set it up the night before running the test.

Now we will download patches by going to Subscription Settings. (If there are no settings for Windows or Mac it just means it is a fresh install and there aren’t any settings on it)

Updating PatchesTo update patches click on Setting>>Control Panel>>Patch Settings.

After clicking Patch Settings click on the Update Patching button and wait a few minutes.

Next click on the Security Module at the top and scroll down. It will show by “Last Update Status” that it has been updated.

Now We are Ready to Subscribe Here you will see a list of all of the supported operating systems and be able to edit them at the bottom with the Edit Mode button at the bottom of the page.

Don’t click on the Download Software Installers, this is an advanced option that will be discussed later.

Next Let’s Create Patch Filters

For now we will skip the Machine Filters because it’s in another presentation in better depth. But Patch Filters are very similar, so this should help with both processes.

Go to the Label tab under Inventory and create a label that we want to use to collect the patches we are going to focus on.

Patch Filters Continued

In Patch Listing click on Create Patch Filter button. This is going to permit us to group patches together to update multiple updates at once. The queries can be as simple or complex as you’d like.

Closing up the Updates

In this stage of the updates you can select your queries to update both Windows and Mac OS’.

Next go back to Inventory and select the “My View By” pull-down it will show you all the patches that are under that filter.

Any time updates become available for those categorizations you will see them available in that screen. From here on your updates will be an easy to use dynamic policy or schedule. For help with software distribution go here.