TITLE: HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack VERSION: VPM 1.0 SP1 Rev. SP1 DESCRIPTION: The Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack Critical Update will update your VPM server to accommodate a change to the Red Hat Network metadata encoding (Base64). Before installing, make sure that all VPM functions are not running or scheduled to run in the next 5 minutes. Installing the Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack patch will shutdown background VPM services. PURPOSE: Critical Update SOFTPAQ NUMBER: 29015 SUPERSEDES: None EFFECTIVE DATE: December 14, 2004 CATEGORY: Management Software SSM SUPPORTED: Yes PRODUCT TYPE(S) Servers PRODUCT MODEL(S): N/A OPERATING SYSTEM(S): Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Microsoft Windows 2003 LANGUAGE(S): Global PREREQUISITES: N/A HOW TO USE: 1. Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive. The file downloaded is a self-extracting executable with a filename based on the SoftPaq Number above. 2. Execute the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions. Copyright © 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.