The hope and expectation is, yes!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin
Toppenberg
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 3:01 PM
To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Patching blues
I read the following in the XT-7P3_SEQ-78_PAT-98.TXT file
It looks like there exists some automatic patching ability.
Is this something that those outside the VA should/could use?
Kevin
XT*7.3*98 VistA Patch Monitor.
Important Note:
===============
NOTE: This is Kernel Toolkit Patch XT*7.3*98. It exports the VistA Patch
Monitor software. The VistA Patch Monitor is not to be confused with the
VistA Auto Patch (VAPU) Monitor. This patch includes a post init routine
XT73P98, which deletes all Class III VistA Patch Monitor Version 2.0
files (i.e., Files PATCH MONITOR (#177100.6) and PATCH MONITOR
PARAMETER (#177100.7)), options and routines in the AWB namespace. Patch
XT*7.3*98 exports and installs all options and files comprising the Class
I version of the VistA Patch Monitor in the XTPM namespace.
===========================
The VistA Patch Monitor software is a package designed to assist package
support and management personnel in keeping up with VistA patch
requirements. It monitors patches as they arrive in the VistA MailMan,
records pertinent data and then monitors the patches on a daily basis
through automated processing. This package will track only patches that
are released from the National Patch Module on Forum. It will not track
Class III patches, test patches or hand-entered patches from other sources
due to its link with the KIDs INSTALL file.
Package support and management personnel have a various reporting
programs they may use on a daily basis as well as automatic daily options
which report anything from any patches that are past due to patches which
report uninstalled patches.
Further information is provided in a separate document named "VistA Patch
Monitor, Patch XT*7.3*98, Supplement to Patch Desc." This document can be
downloaded from the Health Systems Design and Development (HSD&D) VistA
Documentation Library (VDL) Web site:
http://www.va.gov/vdl/Infrastructure.asp?appID=12
VistA documentation and software can also be downloaded from the
Enterprise VistA Support (EVS) anonymous directories:
Albany OIFO ftp.fo-albany.med.va.gov
Hines OIFO ftp.fo-hines.med.va.gov
Salt Lake City OIFO ftp.fo-slc.med.va.gov
Preferred Method download.vista.med.va.gov
Note: This method transmits the files from the first available FTP server.
Package Operation:
===================
Patches are usually sent to the G.PATCHES mail group, which should be
standard at all sites. If this mail group does not exist at a site, any
mail group that receives national patches may be used.
In this mail group, a server option, S.XTPM PATCH SERVER, is added as a
"remote user." When Mailman delivers the message, the server option
receives the message, examines it line by line and extracts certain
information. This message data then is stored in the PATCH MONITOR file
(#9.9).
Upon arrival, a patch message is examined to see if it contains the text
"**INSTALL NAME**" as a line in the message. If it does not, then the
message is flagged as "non-KIDs" when first entered. This does not mean
it is not really a KIDs patch but rather that there is no KIDs install
included in the patch message. This may be because of one of the
following two things:
1. The patch may require a host file to be downloaded and installed
into the distribution global
2. The patch may not yet be loaded into the distribution global from
the MailMan message
At night, a TaskMan option, XTPM NIGHTLY PATCH MONITOR, runs after
midnight, reviews the PATCH MONITOR file (#9.9) and takes certain actions:
1. If any patch is not installed and the current date is not past
the compliance date, nothing is done.
2. If the job finds a matching entry in the INSTALL file (#9.7), the
patch type is set to be a "KIDs" patch. Otherwise it continues to
remain a non-KIDs patch until such a record is found.
3. If the patch is a KIDs patch and there is no installation date in
the INSTALL file (#9.7) and the current date is past the compliance
date, it is added to the mail bulletin that reports all past due
patches to the XTPM PATCH MONITOR mail group.
4. If the patch is a non-KIDs patch and there is no completion date
in the PATCH MONITOR file (#9.9) and the current date is past the
compliance date, it also is added to the mail bulletin that reports
all past due patches to the XTPM PATCH MONITOR mail group.
5. Any patch record, whether KIDs or non-KIDs, that has either a
completed installation record or a completion date, respectively, will
be purged from the PATCH MONITOR file (#9.9) if it is so designated in
the PATCH MONITOR PARAMETER file (#9.95).
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