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

[Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk>]

On 06/13/2012 01:47 PM, Wade Peacock wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>
> Ie.
>
> Patch to date set to    2012-06-10
>
> So all patches released up to 2012-06-10 will be offer to requesting client. Any patches released after 2012-06-10 will be 
> hidden/not offered until the "Patch to Date" is moved forward.
>
> Wade Peacock
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There are a number of different solutions depending on your environment 
and how much you might be prepared to spend.

A few that spring to mind:

PatchLink, works with Windows and RedHat, not sure if they sorted out 
CentOS support.  I've used PatchLink in the past for managing patch 
deployment to several hundreds of servers, (split up into groups for a 
final bit of paranoia).
ManageEngine have tools, but I believe that's Windows only.
RedHat have Satellite that patches and a whole lot more but that comes 
at a premium.  There is also SpaceWalk from them: 
http://spacewalk.redhat.com/ that manages RedHat, CentOS and Scientific 
Linux patching.

Paul