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Enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

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Prerequisites

To view and enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, ensure you have one of the following tiers:

•ESET PROTECT Elite

•ESET PROTECT Complete

•ESET PROTECT MDR

•ESET PROTECT MDR Ultimate

You can enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management on computers running:

•ESET Management Agent version 10.1+

•ESET Endpoint Security for Windows version 10.1+

•ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Windows version 10.1+

•ESET Server Security for Microsoft Windows Server version 11.0+

•ESET Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 11.0+

•ESET Security for Microsoft SharePoint Server 11.0+

•ESET Endpoint Security for macOS version 8.0+

•ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux version 11.0+ (Patch Management not available). Vulnerabilities detection is currently supported only on the following operating systems:

✓Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS

✓Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS

✓Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS

✓Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with supported desktop environment installed

✓Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 with supported desktop environment installed

✓Linux Mint 20

✓Linux Mint 21.1, Linux Mint 21.2

•ESET Server Security for Linux version 11.0+ (Patch Management not available)

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You can also purchase ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management as a separate add-on for the ESET PROTECT Entry and ESET PROTECT Advanced tier.

Select the Platform Modules section; in ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, select the Enable option and a new window will appear:

1.In the Enable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management window:

a.Verify the Auto-patch management for applications toggle is enabled to automatically apply missing patches to the selected computers.

b.Verify the Operating system auto-updates toggle is enabled to automatically apply OS updates to the selected computers.

c.Targets—keep the default (All devices) or select the targets (computers, static or dynamic group).

d.Optionally, select Always enable on new devices. This option is displayed when you selected All devices.

2.Click the Enable button.

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A small notification will appear on the side showing deployment details.

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You can review the progress in icon_eset Platform Modules.

Remove ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

Click the gear gear_icon icon in the top-right of the ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management tile and select delete_default Disable ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management to remove ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management from the managed devices. ESET PROTECT will deactivate ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management and remove the corresponding policy option from all selected devices.

Disable automatic deployment

Click the gear gear_icon icon in the top-right part of the ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management tile and select icon_disable Disable auto-enablement to disable automatic deployment on new devices.