Once a package has been created and published on the repository, we need to assign the repository to managed machines so that they can download and install the package.
To view information about packages and package manager in VCM, we must collect package manager data from managed machines.
We need the agents ready with package manager installed, that is, we need to follow the Deploying additional components on agents recipe, and the repository should be published with the software we plan to provision by following the previous recipe.
This is a two-step process. In the first step, we will collect data from all the managed machines that need the software to be provisioned and check their status, and in the second step, we will collect data from the repository servers to check which packages are available for provisioning.