Systemwalker Software Configuration Manager Operator's Guide

3.3 Patch Application Wizard

Patch application is set up by first selecting the patches that are to be applied.

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The roles of the people who distribute and apply patches

The explanations in this section assume that the roles of the people who distribute and apply patches can be classified as follows:

Infrastructure administrator

• Infrastructure administrators are responsible for patch management (management for WSUS, yum repository servers and the media library).

• Infrastructure administrators do not distribute or apply patches.

• When an error occurs with the patch distribution/application processing, a message may be output to the event log or syslog. If this happens, infrastructure administrators need to check the content of the message and take the necessary action such as reviewing the environment settings.

Tenant administrator

• Tenant administrators use the management console to distribute and apply patches to their tenant's servers.

Tenant user

• Tenant users distribute and apply patches to those servers that they manage themselves.

Dual-role administrator

• Dual-role administrators have the roles of both infrastructure administrators and tenant administrators. When acting as a tenant administrator, a dual-role administrator can distribute and apply patches to the servers in all tenancies.

Display method

1. Click the Patch application wizard button in one of the following windows:

   • Patch list window

   • Patch Details window

   • New patches window

   • List of Servers with Unapplied Patches window

2. Perform the following patch application setup and confirmation operations in the wizard:

   1. Select the patches to be applied

   2. Select the target servers

   3. Set the application method

   4. Check the settings

   5. Completion

Distribution destination for Fujitsu middleware patches

Fujitsu middleware patches are distributed to the following directory:

• Business server

  [Windows]

  <Systemwalker Software Configuration Manager installation directory>\SWCFMGB\var\distribute

  A subdirectory will be created in the above directory with the name "<Process ID> yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss", and patches will be stored in this subdirectory.

  [Linux]

  /var/opt/FJSVcfmgb/distribute

  A subdirectory will be created in the above directory with the name "<Process ID> yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss", and patches will be stored in this subdirectory.

  
  

Changing the distribution destination directory

To change the distribution destination directory, edit the following value:

• Business server

  [Windows]

  The path to the distribution destination directory is defined in the "SWCFMGA_DISTRIBUTE" system environment variable. To change the distribution destination directory, edit the path.

  [Linux]

  /etc/opt/FJSVcfmgb/config/distribute.properties

  The path to the distribution destination directory is defined in the "distribute_dir" item in the above file. To change the distribution destination directory, edit the path.

  Example: distribute_dir=/var/opt/FJSVcfmgb/distribute