B Hp Vulnerability And Patch Management Infrastructure Requirements And Additional Vpm Functionality; Infrastructure - HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation User Manual

B HP Vulnerability and Patch Management infrastructure
requirements and additional VPM functionality
This appendix provides additional VPM information including infrastructure requirements, using the VPM
Acquisition Utility, updating VPM credentials, backing up HP Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack,
and VPM event information.

Infrastructure

A server environment using the Vulnerability and Patch Management consists of the following components:
Vulnerability and Patch Management
HP SIM
Target systems
VPM Acquisition Utility (installed on a separate system, optional)
You must install the Vulnerability and Patch Management and HP SIM together on a single server (referred
to as a shared configuration). For this release, both the Vulnerability and Patch Management and HP SIM
must operate on a Windows server.
In a shared server configuration, Vulnerability and Patch Management and HP SIM are installed on the same
server. The following figure depicts a shared server configuration in which the VPM server has Internet access
to obtain patch and vulnerability updates.
The following figure depicts a shared server configuration in which the VPM Acquisition Utility is used to
obtain patch and vulnerability updates from the patch update sources.
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