About Patch Templates

Patch templates are another important aspect of the patch management solution. Patch templates help you create predesigned plans based on an existing successfully analyzed or deployable patch plan, however without any targets selected. A patch template contains a predetermined set of patches and deployment options saved from the source patch plan, and enables you to select a completely new set of targets.

This way, as a Patch Designer, you can create a patch plan with a set of patches, test them in your environment, save the successfully analyzed patch plan as a patch template, and publish them to Patch Operators. As a Patch Operator, who can create patch plans out of the templates, add another set of targets, and roll out the patches to the production environment in a recursive manner.

This way, you reduce the time and effort required to create new patch plans, and as a Patch Designer, you expose only the successfully analyzed and approved plans to Patch Operators.

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An administrator or role that has the privileges to create a patch template and view a patch plan, which is being used to create a template, can create a patch template.