Checking for managed systems that need updates

If you want to locate managed systems that need updates for IBM Director Agent or for xSeries drivers or firmware, you can use the Software Health Check to find the managed systems.

After you have imported a package using IBM Update Assistant, you can use Software Health Check to locate the managed systems that require the update.
Note: The XML file associated with the package must be enabled for Software Health Check.
Complete the following steps to perform a software health check for a selected package:
  1. In the Tasks pane of the IBM Director Console , expand Software Distribution > All Software Distribution Packages.
  2. Right-click the package or category for which you want to locate managed systems that need the update and select Perform Health Check.

    When the Software Health Check is complete, the Software Health Check Log window shows the managed systems that require the update, as well as the current version of the installed software. A dynamic group that contains all of the managed systems that need the update is also created. The group name is the title of the software package, preceded by Health:. For example, the group name for an update titled, IBM Hard Disk Drive Update Program (Windows) is Health: IBM Hard Disk Drive Update Program (Windows). If a managed system that needs the update comes online after Software Health Check is performed, the dynamic group is automatically updated.

    Note: If Software Health Check is performed on a software-package category, each package in the category is checked. A single dynamic group is created that contains each managed system that requires an update for any of the packages in the category.

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