That appears to be correct.  The Feed Vendor is deprecating "Software Installers in their new feed".

www.microfocus.com/.../ZENworksPatchManagementContentReport_AdvancedPatchFeed.pdf

Support is defined as follows: • Update installers (no base installers; no Feature Updates) • Core OS updates (may include patches, service packs, security updates, quality updates, cumulative updates, and hotfixes) • Stated versions, editions, and architecture only (Note: versions typically reflect the vendor's currently supported versions; patches for versions no longer supported by a vendor may still be available)

It looks you would need to use the Core ZCM to deploy the Installers.

I saw that listed under Operating System Support section and not under Windows Application Support which led me to think are no base installers or feature updates for Windows 10, etc as before.

 The only other mention of installers I saw was down at the bottom in “Patch Content End-of-Life Policy” which makes it sound like they should be there.

Application Software Installers Content for application software installers is removed:

• One year after a vendor reports end-of-life for the application
• If the application has been superseded for more than two years.

The Legacy patch feed document basically reads the same way.

I will get some of this confirmed and the docs cleaned up a little.

I did take not to where that section I quoted was found myself.

Hi  Jim,

I was partially incorrect.

ZPM will not SCAN for Installers by default.

Enabling this support is not documented and comes with some caveats.

I will not post how to do it publicly at this time..

However, I will drop you an email telling you how.

I will update this thread as I get details on why we don't document how to do this....

The following will be documented and shows how to enable "Software Scanning for "Software Installers".

It will create additional overhead, but generally not worse than prior versions but you will lose some of the benefits of the new feed.

Unless you make heavy use of it, it may be better to simply use ZCM core to deliver installers.

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Software Installers are included in the feed, we just don’t scan for them by default and report them. If a customer wants to use Software Installers they can add this System Variable:

• • Key: scan.software.installers
  • Value: true

They can add the variable at the zone, device folder, or device level depending on needs but obviously only the devices that do the scan will report status.

The customer will want to be aware that scanning for software installers significantly increases scan time as well as the number of patch entries in the database.