[153838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Patch Management - Windows & RHEL/CentOS based on Date
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reed Loden)
Wed Jun 13 19:58:18 2012
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:57:40 -0700
From: Reed Loden <reed@reedloden.com>
To: Wade Peacock <Wade.Peacock@visioncritical.com>
In-Reply-To: <1FED9134A6AFF44581924E5576E4DD863609A4BC@VCVANMAILMB1.vci.local>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:47:24 +0000
Wade Peacock <Wade.Peacock@visioncritical.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a patch management system that will allow us to
> control the roll out of patches, specifically for Windows but Linux
> would be nice too, that can use a date to limit whether a patch is
> rolled out.
I don't know of a good software product that does *both* Windows and
RHEL/CentOS, but for Windows, have you looked at Microsoft's WSUS [0]?
For RHEL/CentOS, use Spacewalk [1].
Hope that helps!
~reed
[0] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb332157.aspx
[1] http://spacewalk.redhat.com/
