What does the checkbox "Limit Patches To Matching Machine Labels" do or mean when setting up a patch schedule?
I could not find a description in the Admin guide.
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Posted by:
Aaron Cool
12 years ago
Limit Patches to Matching Machine Labels:
It is recommended that you do not use this option.
It is only used to provide backward-compatibility in specific rare cases.
Posted by:
ewagner
12 years ago
You can either configure a patch schedule to run on all machines (not recommended), or you can limit the patch schedule to machine labels you can then specify in a drop-down box. In order to use this, you need to first create machine labels (either regular or smart labels), and have them populated with your selected machines.
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I understand the concept and have created Machine labels to define which machines get patched, which is done in the Machine Section. This check box is down in the Deploy Patch Label Selection section. Are my selected Machine labels ignored until i check this box? that would be counter intuitive and a real flaw in the GUI design. - gwilson185 12 years ago
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Under the Deploy Patch Label Selection, Limit Deploy To
Selected Patch Labels are patch smart labels you have selected to deploy to your machine labels. Are you referring to the Limit Patches To Matching Machine Labels check box? - dragon23 12 years ago-
Yes, I am trying to get an answer on what that checkbox does. I have machine labels selected and specific patch labels set. - gwilson185 12 years ago