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Arcserve Backup Patch Manager Guidelines

The following guidelines apply to the Patch Manager:

• Within the Arcserve Backup environment, Patch Manager can be installed wherever Arcserve Backup components reside. Patch Manager can be installed not only on systems running Arcserve Backup, but also on any of its Windows based agents).

  For example, a Arcserve Backup Domain can have several machines or servers, each with Arcserve Backup installed, and each with Patch Manager installed.

  • Staging servers installs do not need to reside on a server that has Arcserve Backup installed

    Note: A Staging Server is used as a temporary storage place for patch downloads before being installed into Arcserve Backup clients.

  • Client needs to be installed on machines that have Arcserve Backup components installed.
• Patch Manager client must be installed on machines running Arcserve Backup components if you want to download and install patches (either manually or automatically).
• Each Patch Manager installation should be configured to get the patches from a local staging server or directly from the Arcserve Support website.
• Automatic download/installation of patches is available only for critical patches .
• The local staging server should be HTTP enabled, so that other client servers can communicate with this staging server to download/install patches.
• If configured, Patch Manager can get the available patches through a proxy server.
• When a patch is selected for manual download, all its dependent patches are also selected for download. (But you will have the option to select the patch(es) to be downloaded, regardless of any dependency relationship). In a scheduled request, all the new available patches will be downloaded. In this case dependency among the patches will not be checked.
• A patch can be installed only if all its dependent patches are already successfully installed.
• Prior to uninstalling a patch, Patch Manager will check for any dependent patches that are also installed.
  • A patch can be uninstalled only if all its dependent patches are already uninstalled.
  • A patch can only be uninstalled if it is not a pre-requisite patch for any other patches which are already installed.