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Re: Patch Management - Windows & RHEL/CentOS based on Date

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Wong)
Wed Jun 13 22:17:46 2012

In-Reply-To: <1FED9134A6AFF44581924E5576E4DD863609A4BC@VCVANMAILMB1.vci.local>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:37 -0700
From: Ray Wong <rayw@rayw.net>
To: Wade Peacock <Wade.Peacock@visioncritical.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

If you're using Active Directory I think you can actually do that with
the Policy Manager thingy, but i'm not really a windows guy to be
sure.

-R>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Wade Peacock
<Wade.Peacock@visioncritical.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know of a patch management system that will allow us to contr=
ol the roll out of patches, specifically for Windows but Linux would be nic=
e too, that can use a date to limit whether a patch is rolled out.
>
> Ie.
>
> Patch to date set to =A0 =A02012-06-10
>
> So all patches released up to 2012-06-10 will be offer to requesting clie=
nt. Any patches released after 2012-06-10 will be hidden/not offered until =
the "Patch to Date" is moved forward.
>
> Wade Peacock
> Production IT | Vision Critical
> direct =A0604.629.9358
> mobile =A0604.363.8137
>
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