Default Software Update Plug-In Policy Page - Symantec ALTIRIS PATCH MANAGEMENT SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - FOR WINDOWS V1.0 Manual

Default Software Update Plug-in Policy page

Options on the Policy and Package Settings tab of the vendor
Table 5-3
policies (continued)
Option
Allow Package Server distribution
Assign package to
Use alternate download location on
Package Server
Use alternate download location on
client
Options on the Programs tab of the vendor policies
Table 5-4
Option Description
Terminate after Lets you specify a time after which to terminate a running software
update program.
Run with rights Lets you specify which account to use to run the program. If you select
the Specified User, you must specify user domain information.
Program can run Lets you specify the conditions in which the program can run.
Agent Events Sends relevant events from managed computers to Notification Server.
This page lets you specify settings (including install and restart options) for the
Software Update Plug-in to use when installing software updates on managed
computers.
The default resource target for the policy is designed to find any agents that do
not have another Software Update Plug-in configuration policy applied to them.
For this reason, the default resource target cannot be changed. If you want to
change the default resource target, you must clone the policy and alter the resource
target on the clone.
Configuring Patch Management Solution for Windows
Default Software Update Plug-in Policy page
Description
This option is checked by default to ensure that
package servers process software update packages.
For more information on package servers, see the
Symantec Management Platform User Guide.
Lets you select the package distribution method.
For more information on assigning packages to
package servers, see the Symantec Management
Platform User Guide.
Lets you specify a different location on a package
server to which to download packages.
Lets you specify a different location on the managed
computers to which to download packages.
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