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Altiris SDK & PatchManagement

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 2 comments
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Hi,

I've been trying to figure a way of automating through the SDK a way of staging patches which were only released after the specific date of September 2002, and i'm getting myself tied up in knots a bit.

Through the ASDK you can't seem to access the release date of a patch, and instead have to resort to calling up patches by year which isn't ideal.  I hoped to use a workaround of flagging all pre september 2002 patches with a custom severity level of 'Legacy', so I could tell my scripts to ignore all 'Legacy' patches, but then afterwards I've been unable to extract the custom severity from the patch.

Anyone got any idea on this one?

Kind Regards,
Ian./

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Mark Potts's picture
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2009
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This may help.

Take a look at this article

http://www.symantec.com/connect/downloads/automatically-download-and-set-patch-management-jobs

It does not use the ASDK as such, and the script is not exactly what you need, but having used this in the past it is a relatively easy to understand script, you should be able to amend the SQL statements within the script to put in a filter to check the inv_software_bulletin for FirstReleaseDate > 2002-09-01

Cheers,
Mark.

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2009
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 Hi Mark, I cannot believe

 Hi Mark,

I cannot believe I missed this! This is great.

Kind Regards,
Ian./

Ian Atkin, Senior Developer for the ICT Support Team, Oxford University, UK

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