4.1 Viewing Subscription Service Information

  1. Click the Configuration tab in the left panel.

    The Configuration page appears as shown in the following figure:

  2. Click Patch Management.

  3. Click the Subscription Service Settings link.

    The Subscription Service Settings page appears, as shown in the following figure:

    Refresh option in the Action menu

The Subscription Service Settings page displays includes: information about your the status of the subscription service. It also includes controls for configuring Patch Management for use through a proxy server and all the information about your subscription, including the status. You can also update your subscription settings on this page.

  • Information about the status of the subscription service, as well as controls for starting it, resetting it, or changing the interval that it checks for subscription updates.

  • An area for configuring Patch Management for use with a proxy server.

  • An area for entering credentials used to download Linux patch content subscriptions.

The following table describes each status item featured in Subscription Service Settings:

SubscriptioN Service Setting

Definition

Start the Subscription Service

Enables you to select a server from multiple servers in your management zone. You select a server from the drop-down list and click the Start button to start the subscription service.

  • After the subscription service starts running, the Start button reads Service Running.

  • If there are multiple ZENworks Servers in your management zone, you can select any one of them to be the Patch Management Server.

The Patch Management Server selected will download new patches and updates daily, so it should have good connectivity to the Internet.

NOTE:Selecting the Patch Management Server can be done only once per zone in this release.

Last Subscription Poll

The date and time of the last successful update.

Subscription Replication Status

The latest status of the process of patch subscription replication.

Subscription Host

The DNS name of the Patch Management licensing server.

Subscription Communication Interval (Every Day at)

The time at which the ZENworks Server will communicate with the ZENworks Patch Subscription Network to retrieve new patches and updates.

Reset ZENworks Patch Management Settings

Enables you to set all Patch Management settings, including deployments, back to the default state.

Reset Subscription Service

Restarts the subscription service.

The following table describes the action of each button on the page:

Button

Action

OK

Enables you to go back to the Configuration page.

Apply

Enables you to save the changes made to the Subscription Communication Interval.

Reset

Enables you to reset the replication status and initiate a complete replication with the ZENworks Patch Subscription Network.

Update Now

Initiates replication of the ZENworks Server with the ZENworks Patch Subscription Network and forces an immediate download of the patch subscription.

Cancel

Enables you to cancel the last action performed.