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Software Patch Management
This is a place to collect information, links and experience with automated software patch management tools. At this point in time, for budgetary considerations, I have decided to proceed with
the installation of a Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS) server for windows patch management. [see below].
Relevant White Papers or Information Links
Patch Management Tools
Multiplatform
- Citadel Hercules: Automated Vulnerability Remediation
NT, 2000, XP, Linux Redhat, Solaris
- Ecora Patch Manager
Solaris, Windows NT/2000/XP, MS-SQL Server, MSDE, Exchange 5.5 & 2000, Office 2000/XP, Windows Media Player, IIS
- IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager
BM AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, Solaris 7, 8, HP-UX 11i
Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, XP Pro, 2000 Pro, Windows 2000 Server, Advanced, Red Hat 7.1 (ix86), 7.2 (ix86), SuSE 7.2 (ix86), Red Hat zSeries (390), SuSE 7.0 (390), Novell Netware 5.1, 6.0, OS/2 Warp Server for ebusiness, OS/2 Warp 4, OS/400 (V4R5, V5R1),Windows 98, Windows 95 (per contract agreement only), Nokia Communicator, Palm OS, PocketPC
- PatchLink Update
NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Unix (Linux, Solaris, AIX, etc.), IBM, Adobe, Corel, Symantex, McAfee, WinZip,
Citrix and Novell.
Windows Only
- BigFix
NT, 2000, XP (Solaris and Linux being added)
- HFNetChkPro
NT, XP, 2000, Windows Server 2003, Exchange, SQL Server, Outlook, Microsoft Office, Java Virtual Machine
- Microsoft Software Update Services (SUS)
2000, 2003, XP
- Microsoft SMS with Software Update Services Feature Pack
2000, 2003, XP, Office
- UpdateEXPERT
NT, 2000, XP, 2003
Linux Only
- Red Hat Network
RedHat
- Current
RedHat
- APT (Advanced Package Tool)
RedHat
- Synaptic
GUI Front-end to APT-RPM
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