Re: Automated Patching and Updates?

["Wehner, Paul (wehnerpl)" <WEHNERPL () UCMAIL UC EDU>]

I've been playing with the eval of Ecora's solution. It works fairly well.
I have only tested with MS servers. Occasionally I set the app to force
install and reboot and instead it schedules the tast for later. And it
doesn't understand Win2003 (yet).
Also, in a multi-domain environment, workgroups, etc., authentication is a
bit of a bear.

I am testing the feasability of using microsoft's baseline security analizer
tool, with freeware mbsaFU utility (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbsafu/)
using SSH. So far it's working well.



-----Original Message-----
From: F.M. Taylor [mailto:ftaylor1 () MYMAIL INDSTATE EDU]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:54 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Automated Patching and Updates?


You may want to look into the ecora patch management suite.  I believe it
will
do what you wish to do. (www.ecora.com).

Ariel Silverstone wrote:
> This is exactly the situation I am trying to avoid.  We would like one
> product, and thus one management console, to be able to handle all
patching
> and updates.  Not sure yet if it is possible, and will keep all informed.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
>
> Ariel Silverstone

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