HP Insight Vulnerability and Patch Manager Software - Manual (Page 11)

Introduction 11
Distributed server configuration
In a distributed server configuration, Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack and HP SIM are each
installed on a different server. A distributed server configuration can be beneficial in situations where
the hardware limitations of the HP SIM server do not allow Vulnerability and Patch Management Pack
to function efficiently on the HP SIM server.
The following figure depicts a distributed server configuration, in which the VPM server has Internet
access to obtain patch and vulnerability updates.