Symantec ALTIRIS INVENTORY 7.0 SP2 - FOR NETWORK DEVICES... User manual

Altiris™Patch Management

Solution for Mac from

Symantec User Guide

Version 7.0 SP2

Altiris™Patch Management Solution for Mac from

Symantec User Guide

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Technical Support ............................................................................................... 3

Chapter 1 Introducing Patch Management Solution for

Mac .................................................................................... 9

About Patch Management Solution for Mac ........................................ 9

Where to get more information ....................................................... 10

Chapter 2 Implementing Patch Management Solution for

Mac ................................................................................... 13

Implementing Patch Management Solution for Mac ........................... 13

Chapter 3 Installing Patch Management Solution for Mac ........... 15

Prerequisites for Patch Management Solution for Mac ........................ 15

Installing Patch Management Solution for Mac .................................. 16

Licensing .................................................................................... 16

Chapter 4 Checking for available software updates ....................... 17

Checking for available software updates ........................................... 17

Viewing the list of available software updates ................................... 18

Chapter 5 Installing software updates .............................................. 19

About installing software updates ................................................... 19

Installing individual software updates ............................................. 19

Installing all updates .................................................................... 20

Chapter 6 Viewing reports .................................................................... 23

About Patch Management Solution for Mac reports ............................ 23

Viewing reports ........................................................................... 24

About the Patch Management home page ......................................... 24

Index .................................................................................................................... 27

Contents

Contents8

Introducing Patch

Management Solution for

Mac

This chapter includes the following topics:

■About Patch Management Solution for Mac

■Where to get more information

About Patch Management Solution for Mac

Patch Management Solution for Mac lets you scan Mac computers for the updates

that they require. The solution then reports on the findings and lets you automate

the downloading and distribution of needed software updates. You can distribute

all or some of the updates.

Patch Management Solution for Mac can update only the software that is supported

by the Mac OS X Software Update utility. The solution integrates with the Software

Update utility, and lets you collect needed updates information from the target

Mac computers and initiate software update. Mac computers download software

updates from Apple and report installation status to Notification Server.

Patch Management Solution for Mac provides you with the pre-configured rollout

jobs that let you automate installing a large number of updates. For example, the

pre-configured rollout jobs can install all updates, all recommended updates, and

so on.

See “Implementing Patch Management Solution for Mac”on page 13.

Chapter

Where to get more information

Use the following documentation resources to learn and use this product.

Table 1-1 Documentation resources

LocationDescriptionDocument

http://kb.altiris.com/

You can search for the product name under

Release Notes.

Information about new features and

important issues.

This information is available as an article in

the knowledge base.

Release Notes

■The Documentation Library, which is

available in the Symantec Management

Console on the Help menu.

■The Product Support page, which is

available at the following URL:

http://www.symantec.com/business

/support/all_products.jsp

When you open your product’s support

page, look for the Documentation link

on the right side of the page.

Information about how to use this product,

including detailed technical information and

instructions for performing common tasks.

This information is available in PDF format.

User Guide

The Documentation Library, which is

available in the Symantec Management

Console on the Help menu.

Context-sensitive help is available for most

screens in the Symantec Management

Console.

You can open context-sensitive help in the

following ways:

■The F1 key

■The Context command, which is available

in the Symantec Management Console

on the Help menu.

Information about how to use this product,

including detailed technical information and

instructions for performing common tasks.

Help is available at the solution level and at

the suite level.

This information is available in HTML help

format.

Help

In addition to the product documentation, you can use the following resources to

learn about Altiris products.

Introducing Patch Management Solution for Mac

Where to get more information

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