KACE Patch Catalog - Missing something basic i'm sure - deploy from Patch Catalog
Hello all,
I know I am missing something very basic here, so just wished to ask.
Currently, I am doing Managed Installations for things like Chrome, Firefox, obtain the MSI, run through the process and then deploy, and it works
But, under Security / Patch Management / Patch Catalog, I of course see various releases, includes ones I manually am downloading msi files for. (I took over this KACE from someone else and just working my way through it via the admin guides and KACE Support)
Question is, how on earth, do I take something from the Patch Catalog, and deploy that to systems? Instead of manually creating / updating Managed Installations? (Sure it is something basic my brain is skipping over thinking it is more complex). All I can seem to do is associate it to a label, and I am only used to doing label and then associating those to a Managed Install for assets, and since those force you to choose software (but in this case, does not exist under Software or Catalog Software when I search and look for a specific version)
Checking on a Patch details, it is downloaded, and sitting ready to go....
KACE Systems Management Appliance v 13.2
Answers (2)
You don't.
Patch catalog is used for UPDATES.
Managed installations are for installing software.
Yes, you may find still how tos to install software via patch catalog but this was working due to a bug.
Please also be aware, that your 13.2 goes EOL end of september 2024 so you urgently should upgrade to 14.0 or better 14.1 very soon.
Top Answer
Thank you Nico_K for the clarification.
So with that, how would I push out said updates available under Patch Catalog to existing installed apps?
Will also get things rolling to get us updated to the latest and greatest 14 version!
Comments:
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Review this training video regarding patching:
https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance/training/272/kace-sma-course-4-agent-managed-device-security-free
I also suggest, since you are new with KACE to work through the full (free) trainings:
https://support.quest.com/kace-systems-management-appliance/training - Nico_K 2 months ago-
I was having such a brain fart! Thank you for the video's, this is how I have been deploying OS patches already (its clearly been one of those months!) - MBLVS 2 months ago