How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager

How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager. In this post, I will cover the installation and configuration of SolarWinds Patch Manager if you’re specifically looking for the best solution for 3rd party application patching.

Something like, how can we patch 3rd party applications without much headache. The following post would be helpful How to Tackle Your Java Vulnerabilities with the help of SolarWinds Patch Manager.

How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager

1. Download the trial version of   Solarwinds Patch Manager from here. How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager?

2. Another advantage of the SolarWinds patch manager is installing it on your desktop.  However, please note that Solarwinds doesn’t support the patch manager web console on the same server as a WSUS Server. The installation process is very straightforward. I’ve selected express setup. This installs all programs and features, including the patch manager server, console, and web console.

Following are the prerequisites which are required for the successful installation of SolarWinds Patch Manager.  The patch manager installer will automatically take care of all the downloads and installations of prerequisites—NO need to download prerequisites separately and install them.

(a) WSUS Console (b) Update KB2734608 for WSUS 3.0 SP2 (c) SQL Server Express 2008 R2 SP1 (d) SQL server 2012 System CLR Types (e) SQL Server 2012 Management Objects 

3. SolarWinds Patch Manager setup will take 15-20 minutes depending on your internet connectivity, as this would require downloading prerequisites and installation. Once you launch the patch manager, it will ask you to select the product’s features you’re interested in using. WSUS  Extension Pack and System Center Configuration Manager Extension Pack.  This configuration will automatically take care of the integration of the patch manager with SCCM and WSUS.

How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager
Product Feature Selection – Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager

4.  You can select the domains or workgroups to manage with the SolarWinds patch manager. If the domain or workgroups are not listed, you can add them manually using the add button at the bottom of the screen.

On the next screen, you can provide the ConfigMgr site server details to register the site server in the Solarwinds patch Manager. After that, you need to provide the WSUS server details for WSUS integration. The next screen will ask you to create a patch management group, a virtual or logical group created for collection managed devices. The following screenshot will tell you about the three steps covered above.

5. The next wizard will help to configure 3rd party update pack. This service will enable automated synchronization of 3rd party catalogs and their respective updates and software packages. This would require an internet connection. This sync process will connect to the SolarWinds website to retrieve the list of available catalogs and their respective vendors and products.

The following are the vendor products information discovered in my sync process: Adobe Systems Acrobat 11 Catalog,  Hewlett-Packard Client Updates Catalog, Hewlett-Packard Server Updates Catalog, Dell Server Updates Catalog, Dell Business Client Update Catalog, Adobe Systems Reader 10 Catalog, Adobe Systems Acrobat 10 Catalog, SolarWinds Update (Notification Only) Catalog and Adobe Systems Reader 11 Catalog.

Would you please select all the 3rd party products you want to sync automatically and import them to Solarwinds Patch Manager? The Next wizard would be there to select the Sync schedule for the latest updates. There are more useful options like removing updates that are older than 60 days etc…

Provisioning the WSUS server for publishing the packages is the next step. The signing certificate will also be published as required servers in the hierarchy. How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager.

How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager
WSUS Publishing Wizard – Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager

6. As mentioned in the initial post, I’ve selected Sun Java updates. In the following screenshot, you can see the packages available for Sun Java updates. How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager.

How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager
SolarWinds – Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager

Resources

Free SCCM Training Part 1 | 17 Hours Of Latest Technical Content | ConfigMgr Lab HTMD Blog (anoopcnair.com)

How To Disable SCCM Application Deployment | ConfigMgr | MEMCM – HTMD Blog #2 (howtomanagedevices.com)

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

3 thoughts on “How to Install Configure Integrate SolarWinds Patch Manager”

  1. Hi Anoop,

    Hope you are doing good. article was useful and it is very informative. Would you be interested in a unique article in the patch management niche.

    Reply
  2. Screenshots under point 2 and point 4 are not appearing. It shows a cross sign. Can you please check and upload the screenshots again.

    Reply

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