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  2. System Health Insights User Guide
  3. Appliance Update Management
  4. Patch Management

Patch Management

You can to initiate General Availability, Maintenance Release upgrade, HotFix and Patch Installation to NetBackup and Flex appliances through System Health Insights console.

To initiate update,

  1. Navigate to Update Management > Patch Management.
  2. Click Action menu (three vertical dots) next to Details and click Install Patch.
  3. A verification pop-up will appear. Enter the verification code shared to the registered email address and click Verify and Proceed.
  4. A message informing about OTP verification will appear.
  5. Patch installation will be initiated. Click View Activity Monitor in the message appearing on the top.
  6. There are different operational views for standalone and HA appliances.
    • In case of standalone appliance, the Activity Monitor page will have information about the operation being initiated, its progress and status of that operation.

    • In case of HA appliance, the Activity Monitor page will have information about operations on all nodes. The patch installation will happen one by one and not simultaneously. Once patch is installed successfully on one node, upgrade will be initiated on the next one.

  7. The same functionality can be initiated from the Fleet Management dashboard, where you can trigger multiple patch updates simultaneously

After successfully installing the patch, the status will change to Complete.

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