Click the
tab in the left panel to display the Configuration page:Click
to display the four links ( , , and ):Click the
link to display the Subscription Download Options page:The Subscription Download Options page allows you to configure the subscription download options for the Patch Management Server. You can select the languages that are used within your network to ensure that you only download the patches that are most applicable for your organization. The next time patch replication occurs, only those patches specific to the selected languages are downloaded, thereby saving download time and disk space on your Patch Management Server.
NOTE:Novell does not recommend selecting all languages because each language can represent hundreds of patches. Downloading unnecessary languages can result in thousands of unused patch definitions within your ZENworks Primary Server database that would then need to be disabled in the
tab.The following table describes each option on the Subscription Download Options page:
IMPORTANT:Customers with larger network environments should select both
and for optimal distribution of patches and the daily Discover Applicable Updates task within their environment. Not selecting these options could cause very slow and inefficient delivery of these patch bundles within a highly distributed WAN environment.Within an enterprise network environment, the customer usually installs more than one ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Primary Server. Although only one of these servers can be used to download patches, every Primary Server has a cache of patch bundle content for distribution to the agents that are closest to it within the zone. Thus, when an agent wants to get a bundle, it can get the bundle directly from its closest Primary Server rather than the Primary Server where the patches were downloaded.
In addition, the satellites that are installed within the customer network can also serve as a cache for bundle content. If an agent is at a remote branch office with a satellite, it can get its content directly from the satellite rather than the Primary Server where patches were downloaded.
The following table describes the action of each button on the page:
Best practices recommendations for using the patch subscription:
Customers should always disable patches that they no longer require, because this minimizes the volume of patch scan data stored each day, as well as the time taken to scan each of the endpoint devices.
We highly recommend that customers cache only the patches they need. When a patch is cached to the Primary Server where patches are downloaded, it needs to be copied to all Primary Servers and satellites within the zone. Downloading all patches wastes space and bandwidth within the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management content distribution network.