Checking For Available Software Updates - Symantec ALTIRIS PATCH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - FOR MAC V1.0 Manual

Checking for available
software updates
This chapter includes the following topics:

Checking for available software updates

You can check target Mac computers for the software updates that they require.
When you run the Check Available Updates Task, the target Mac computers
download software updates information from Apple and then report the list of
available updates to Notification Server.
To ensure that the list of available software updates on Notification Server is kept
up to date, the task is pre-configured to run twice a week. The task is configured
to run on the All Patchable Mac Computers target.
If you want to quickly check Mac computers for compliance, you can run the task
immediately.
After you collect software update information from Mac computer, you can view
this information in reports.
See
See
Checking for available software updates
Viewing the list of available software updates
"Viewing the list of available software updates"
"Implementing Patch Management Solution for Mac"
Chapter
on page 18.
on page 13.
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