Creating a New macOS Patching Policy

Creating a New macOS Patching Policy

When setting up a new macOS patching policy, you begin by providing a name and description and then identifying the settings you want macOS patching to use.

You can also create a new policy by copying another policy and then renaming it. See Copying a macOS Patching Policy.

The macOS patching policy runs on Onsite Manager devices and on Device Manager devices that were prepped using the macOS Prep Utility. See Deploying Onsite Manager within a Domain. If you have trouble running the macOS Prep Utility, see this Knowledgebase article.

  1. Click Service Delivery > Policies > Patching > macOS Patching.

  2. Click New.

  3. In the Policy Name box, type a name for the policy.

  4. In the Description box, type a description of the policy.

  5. Click Create.

  6. To configure policy settings, see To configure a macOS patching policy.

Once your policy is created, you may want to do the following:

To identify devices and groups the policy will be applied to, see either of the following:

To add the policy to a service:

See also: