Deploy

Enables you to deploy (install) patches or service packs currently missing on the machine(s) selected in the top pane. See Deploying One or More Patches to a Machine for more information.

Uninstall Selected

Enables you to uninstall (rollback) the selected patch. See How to Uninstall Patches for more information.

Download Selected

Enables you to download to the download center the selected patches or service packs. See Downloading Patches for more information.

Delete

Enables you to delete selected patches from the download center.

Open Bulletin(s) in Browser

Displays the related Microsoft security bulletin within a Web browser.

Add to Patch Group

Enables you to add the selected patch(es) to an existing patch group or to a new patch group. See Creating and Editing a Patch Group for more information.

Set Criticality

Criticality is the user supplied threat and severity level associated with a particular vulnerability.  While Shavlik Technologies can reasonably evaluate the general threat posed by a patch, even the most critical patches will not always warrant a sense of urgency in organizations in which the vulnerability poses little or no threat.  Therefore, NetChk Protect provides a mechanism to allow the administrator to assign a custom level of criticality for each patch. Criticality can be assigned by clicking Set Criticality and choosing one of the options from the shortcut menu.  If you assign a custom criticality to a patch, the flag displayed in the lower pane will change to the appropriate color.

Add Comment

Enables you to add your own specific comment about the patch.

Expand All

Expands all patch and informational trees in the middle pane.

Collaps All

Collapses all patch and informational trees in the middle pane.

Export selected patches to CSV

Export information about the selected patches to a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. The CSV file can then be used within a spreadsheet program.