Updating Management Packs
When updating an existing MP, you always want to ensure that you have a backup
of the currently installed MP simply for recovery, so ensuring that the Backup
option is selected is a must. Next you must select an Import option based on your
knowledge of changes to the existing MP. If you have followed the best practices
that have been discussed in this chapter, then you will never have made changes to
any built-in rules, but instead will have copied those rules and will have modified
the copied version after disabling the original rule. If you have followed this best
practice then you will want to select the Update Existing Management ...