TITLE: HP ProLiant Essentials Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack

VERSION: VPM 1.10 SP1 Rev. SP1

DESCRIPTION:
The HP Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack Critical Update fixes the following issues:

VPM Acquisition is unable to acquire Microsoft patches MS05-025 through MS05-034 released on 6/14/05.  VPM reports errors as a result of unexpected data contained in Microsoft's meta data feed.


You will see one of the following errors in your patch-acquire.log when you acquire patches with VPM or import from a new VPM Acquisition Utility repository.

Error: invalid command name "" while executing "$curr_sp_node getAttribute Name" (object "::Acquire::mSFT0" method "::Acquire::MSFT::write_products" body line 19)invoked from within "$p1 write_products"

Error: Error parsing XML file C:/VPM/IntegrationServer/data/patch/microsoft/products.xml error error "unclosed token" at line 455 character 0



Before installing the VPM Critical Update, be sure that all VPM functions are stopped and that no VPM events are scheduled to run in the next five minutes. Installing this update will shutdown background VPM services.

In the situation where VPM and HP SIM are installed on separate servers, this SoftPaq must be applied to the VPM server. This SoftPaq must also be applied to the system where the VPM Acquisition Utility is installed. If VPM or the VPM Acquisition Utility are reinstalled, this SoftPaq will need to be applied again.



PURPOSE: Critical Update
SOFTPAQ NUMBER: 30363
SUPERSEDES: None
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 20, 2005
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: 
Before installing the VPM Critical Update, be sure that all VPM functions are stopped and that no VPM events are scheduled to run in the next five minutes. Installing this update will shutdown background VPM services.  

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.
3. In the situation where VPM and HP SIM are installed on separate servers, this SoftPaq must be applied to the VPM server. 
4. This SoftPaq must also be applied to the system where the VPM Acquisition Utility is installed.


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