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The Updates area is where you keep your hosts patched. It shows the operating-system updates pending on each device and lets you approve the schedules for rolling them out — following Myrmex’s usual pattern: the AI proposes, you decide.

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Opening the Updates Area

Reach it from the Directory on the left of the console — Updates is one of the quick actions above your environment. It opens as a tab in the Workspace, scoped to the context you have selected. You can also open it straight from chat by asking about a host’s updates.
Update management is host-scoped — it covers the devices running the Myrmex agent, not your integrations.

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What You’ll See

Pending patches

A read-only, per-host view of the OS updates outstanding across your fleet — queried live, on demand. Consulting it changes nothing.

Applied as governed changes

Actually installing updates happens through a patch change record (GMUD) with approval — never straight from this view.

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How Patching Works

Consulting is separate from applying. The pending-patches view is read-only — it never installs anything. Applying updates is a governed change:
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Consult what's pending

Review the OS updates outstanding on each host. Myrmex queries your online hosts live, on demand — nothing is stored, and nothing is applied.
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The AI proposes a patch change

Centurion turns the updates you want into a patch change (GMUD) with a maintenance window.
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You approve

The patch change passes through the approval gate. Approving authorizes the agent to install the updates in the next maintenance window — recorded under your user. Nothing lands on a host without approval.
This keeps you in control of when changes land on production systems, while the AI handles the legwork of tracking what’s pending and organizing the rollout. The rollout is tracked as a change record, with the same lifecycle and audit trail as any other change.

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Windows Updates

On Windows hosts, Myrmex works through WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) to approve and deliver operating-system updates, fitting into the standard Windows update mechanism.

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Where to Go Next

Device details

Open a host to see its details alongside its updates.

Endpoints view

Browse the fleet you’re keeping patched.

Change Management

How patch changes are approved and executed alongside standard changes.