# Flex Controls

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Provides an extra level of protection for customer devices and patching processes.
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Includes access to Patching, Deployment, and Rollout Cycle details.
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Allows administrators to create product and patching exceptions for specified business units.
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Use Pauses to pause or resume all or some patching activities for specified software products and patches in a specified business unit.
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Create a Rollback object to rollback a patch to a previous version.
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Trigger a client scan of specified products, or clear the maximum number of times a patch can fail installation attempts.
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