patch management software

[techguy21801]

hi all, looking for some patch management software, and i need suggestions, and opinions. (i.e. symantec patch suite, ect.)

thanks

[firefoxthebomb]

WSUS is free from Microsoft

[D8TA]

Patchlink

http://www.patchlink.com/

Worth every penny

[Martin Zugec]

I also vote for WSUS, it is great!

[Shamwari]

Patchlink gets my vote, in the middle of doing an assessment of these products for work. WSUS is ok in in a smaller environment or where feedback on who has taken what, is not an issue. WSUS just pushes the patches, etc out, whereas Patchlink actually reports on the status of a patch rollout, ie, who is still vulnerable. It is also platform independant in so far as it can service Macs, Linux, Unix, etc. If you have a purely M$ environment and a load of brusters, and wanted to know what PCs had not taken the patches, SMS would be a good bet. In our environment we support 10-15 000 PCs, so we need to know where out vulnerablities lie.

[Martin Zugec]

You can see what patches were not applied of course.

For all computer add default action DetectOnly and create additional reports...

BTW best souce of patch informations is probably Shavlik mailgroup

[techguy21801]

cool thanks everyone