Re: Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?

["Chesmore, Michael [DAS]" <Michael.Chesmore () iowa gov>]

Is anyone else using Puppet to manage their Linux boxes?   So far we are liking it, but just starting to roll it out to 
my IDS sensors.

Thanks
Mike

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LANDesk < Unfortunately yes

Have had some major issues with it. Type of issues where you reinstalling agent and rebooting 100's of PC's

When it works it works great, problem is every service pack seems to break as much as it fixes. Not what they use to 
be, but the company has changed hands a couple of times over the past few years.

Just my 2 cents

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com<mailto:craigfreyman () gmail com>> wrote:
Anyone use LANDesk Patch Manager?
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jeremy Pommerening <theaudioman () yahoo com<mailto:theaudioman () yahoo com>> wrote:
I'm using BigFix after trying Lumension and hating it.  BigFix rocks!  At least for the moment.  IBM swallowed them up 
so expect that it will get worse but for now it's fantastic.  You can use BES Relays for the slow links basically 
designating a workstation at each site as the patching server for a group of computers.

Jeremy Pommerening
CISSP,GCFA,GPEN,GAWN,GCFW,
MCSE Win2K, MCSE NT4

--- On Mon, 1/24/11, Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net<mailto:s_s () sbcglobal net>> wrote:

From: Steven Sumichrast <s_s () sbcglobal net<mailto:s_s () sbcglobal net>>
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Favorite Third Party Enterprise Patching Server?
To: "PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List" <pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom com<mailto:pauldotcom () mail pauldotcom 
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Date: Monday, January 24, 2011, 12:46 PM

We are using Lumension PatchLink for Linux/Windows.  I've only had to
deal with it now for a few months, but I think the general consensus
is we're not too thrilled with it (from a compliance standpoint).  It
does an ok job, but we think there are probably better solutions out
there.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jack Daniel <jackadaniel () gmail com<http://mc/compose?to=jackadaniel () gmail com>> 
wrote:
> I was always a big fan of Shavlik, but it depends on your environment.
>  Shavlik does a great job on the Windows side, but I don't think they
> have moved into other platforms.  They do support a huge number of
> third party apps, and they have a 14 day (I think) trial so you can
> play with it.
>
> BigFix seems to be very popular with larger and more mixed
> environments- but I've never used them myself.  Someone here must
> have, though...
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Craig Freyman <craigfreyman () gmail com<http://mc/compose?to=craigfreyman () gmail 
> com>> wrote:
> > What is your favorite third party enterprise patching server? I'll need some
> > sort of distributed model because of slow WAN links and multiple locations.
> > I'm curious to see what you all use and why you like it.
> > Thanks,
> > Craig
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