What is the difference between obsolete and irrelevant patches within the Patch Catalog?
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Legacy ID:KA364929 OBSOLETE patches are the ones that have been replaced by newer patches from their respective Vendors. Within the Bulletins SmartGroup, open a fairly outdated Bulletin, chances are to see the 'Obsolete' box checked with 'Superceded By' value listing the new patch(es) that should be considered instead. Irrelevant patches can be removed from the Catalog: Right-click on the Catalog and select 'Remove Irrelevant Patches'. Blcli commands also exist to remove irrelevant patches, but the name is misleading. Here is Windows Catalog example (Note: the command actually removes irrelevant patches, not obsolete): blcli_execute PatchCatalog deleteObsoletePatchesFromWindowsCatalog "/PathTo/WinCatalog" Note that the blcli and the GUI methods only remove the patch objects from the TSSA database, they do not delete them from the file system of the patch storage location. |