Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Server Automation10.51

Use > Server patching > Patch management for Windows > Patch management process > Step 1 - Configure patch settings > Import metadata for Windows patches

Import metadata for Windows patches

When you import the Windows patch database from Microsoft's Offline Catalog or from a WSUS server, SA only imports the patch metadata for your filtered patches. The imported patch metadata is stored in the Software Repository (Word) and displayed under Library > Patches > Windows.

Patch metadata contains the information that SA requires to install Microsoft patches on your managed servers. Metadata supplies information for the properties of an update, thus enabling you to find out whether the patch is relevant for your Windows managed servers. The metadata package downloaded for an update is typically much smaller than the update file itself.

To import patch metadata:

in Offline Catalog mode, see Import Windows patch database from the MS offline catalog.
in WSUS mode, see Import the Windows patch database from WSUS.

Filtering metadata for import

Depending on your patching mode, SA applies different levels of filtering to ensure that you only import patches for the relevant Microsoft products on your Windows managed servers.

In Offline Catalog patching mode, you can filter imported metadata by patch product and patch locale.

SA retrieves patch metadata from the upstream server where you deployed the WSUS Web service. The WSUS administrator is responsible for keeping any downstream servers synchronized with the upstream server. This ensure you always get the complete and up-to-date list of patch metadata into SA.

After configuring and importing the metadata, you can import the Microsoft patch binaries by using the SA Client. If you are working in Offline Catalog mode, you can also import patch binaries from the populate-opsware-update library command-line script.

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