As per my previous post we are in the process of testing an Agent deployment on a single machine before rolling out to further servers.
I can now perform a scan with my Agent but have some questions related to it:
- Is there no way to install the missing patches from the Agent Console? I have a patch scan status with 181 patches missing, is there not a way of installing these. Or am I supposed to use the Patch Task that is associated with my policy? The problem I can see with this is that I don't want any patches being deployed automatically and this seems that you can only configure it to do that.
- If the above is true then is there a way that I can set up a Patch task that will only become active when manually started by a user logged onto the Agent console? The problem I can see is that the patch task has to be scheduled, which would result in patches being deployed automatically.
- Is it possible to deploy patches from the Console to machines that have Agents installed? When I try a test deployment it Fails with "Could not conenct to remote machine via ICMP" Is this because I need ports 139 & 445 allowing between my console and agent servers?
- From the console when I right click my machine and select Add to Machine group, the machine group is not being show in Machine View and the machine is still being shown as not in a group.
Thanks for your help! 