Disable patch management

Use the console to disable patch management by editing the ensure parameter in the PE Patch Management node group. You can also remove patch management by deleting patching node groups.

1. In the console, click Node groups and select the PE Patch Management node group.
2. On the Classes tab, under the pe_patch class, select the ensure parameter,and change the value to absent.
3. Click Add to node group and commit the change.
4. Run Puppet.

   The client components of the pe_patch class, like cron and scripts, are removed from PE.

5. Optional: To remove patch management from your infrastructure, click Remove node group on the Node details page for the PE Patch Management node group.
   If you have any child node groups under patch management, you must remove those node groups prior to removing the PE Patch Management parent node group.