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ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus - Create Patch Action
- 13 Sep 2023
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ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus - Create Patch Action
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ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus - Create Patch Action performs an install or uninstall of a software patch on:
- Assets that match the results of the selected saved query, and match the Enforcement Action Conditions, if defined or assets selected on the relevant asset page.
Notes:
- This Action only works with assets from DesktopCentral that have a resource ID.
- This Enforcement Action requires the ManageEngine license for Patch Manager Plus.
See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.
General Settings
- Enforcement Set name (required) - The name of the Enforcement Set. A default value is added by Axonius. You can change the name according to your needs.
- Add description - Click to add a description of the Enforcement Set. It is recommended to describe what the Enforcement Set does.
- Run action on assets matching following query (required) - Select an asset category and a query. The Enforcement Action will be run on the assets that match the query parameters.
- A query only returns results for the asset type it was created for.
- Not all asset categories are supported for all Enforcement Actions.
- See Actions supported for Activity Logs, Adapters Fetch History, and Asset Investigation modules.
- See Actions supported for Vulnerabilities.
- See Actions supported for Software.
- Action name (required) - The name of the Main action. A default value is added by Axonius. You can change the name according to your needs.
- Configure Dynamic Values - Toggle on to enter a Dynamic Value statement. See Creating Enforcement Action Dynamic Value Statements to learn more about Dynamic Value statement syntax.
- Use stored credentials from the ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus adapter - Select this option to use ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus connected adapter credentials.
- When you select this option, the Select Adapter Connection drop-down is available, and you can choose which adapter connection to use for this Enforcement Action.
Note:
To use this option, you must successfully configure a ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus adapter connection.
Required Fields
These fields must be configured to run the Enforcement Set.
- Patch IDs - Enter the IDs of the patches to be applied.
- Patch Configuration Name - Enter the patch configuration name.
- Patch Action - Select the action to perform:
- install - Install the patch.
- uninstall - Uninstall the patch.
Compute Node - The Axonius node to use when connecting to the specified host. For more details, see Connecting Additional Axonius Nodes.
Additional Fields
These fields are optional.
- Fetch Desktop Central Data - Fetch data from Desktop Central.
- MFA QR Code - Click Upload File, select the QR code file and click Open.
- OAuth Client ID - Enter the OAuth Client ID.
- OAuth Client Secret - Enter the OAuth Client Secret.
- OAuth Refresh Token - Enter the OAuth Refresh Token.
- OAuth Zoho Accounts URL (default: https://accounts.zoho.com) - Enter the OAuth Zoho accounts URL.
- MSP Customer ID - Enter the MSP Customer ID.
Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
- API Version - Select the API version to use.
- Patch Configuration Description - Enter a description of the patch configuration.
- Create patch per entity connection - When selected, a patch is created for each connection.Notes:
- When Create patch per entity connection is selected, the credentials from Use stored credentials from ManageEngine... will be ignored as well as any other Enforcement Action credentials.
- When Use stored credentials from ManageEngine... is toggled on and Create patch per entity connection is not selected, the Action will create one patch.
- When Use stored credentials from ManageEngine... is toggled off and Create patch per entity connection is not selected, the Action will create patches for configured Action credentials.
Gateway Name - Select the gateway through which to connect to perform the action.
Connection Parameters
When Use stored credentials from the ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus adapter is toggled Off, these fields are required:
- Domain - Enter the ManageEngine domain. For more details, see ManageEngine Endpoint (Desktop) Central and Patch Manager Plus.
- Port (default: 8020) - Enter the port to use to apply the patch.
- User Name Domain - Enter the user name domain for ManageEngine.
- User Name - Enter the user name used to access ManageEngine.
- Password - Enter the password used to access ManageEngine.
- Domain Authorization Token - Enter the domain authorization token.
Verify SSL - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.
HTTPS Proxy - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.
APIs
Axonius uses the ManageEngine Endpoint Central API - SoM Summary API.
For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.
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