Linux - Centralized Patch Management System

Standard Toaster · 2012-10-19 16:39:35

I posted this over in Unix forum, no replies yet so might have better luck here (hope you don't mind mods) I'm running a small (but growing!) Linux environment comprising of about 21 Linux servers The environment I mainly look after consists of CentOS 5 & 6 and Red Hat 6. All of these are patched individually via their…

19-10-2012 04:39PM

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I posted this over in Unix forum, no replies yet so might have better luck here (hope you don't mind mods)

I'm running a small (but growing!) Linux environment comprising of about 21 Linux servers

The environment I mainly look after consists of CentOS 5 & 6 and Red Hat 6.
All of these are patched individually via their appropriate yum repos.

Can anyone suggest a method of centralising patch management for these servers? I've heard that Puppet is often used to do this but I've never used it myself, and would be interested in hearing from other system administrators.

Support for Solaris and Windows would be a bonus....and open-source!

Cheers

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#2 21-10-2012 11:30PM

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Puppet sounds like the perfect solution for this in combination with a local repo. It also supports Windows (and Solaris too I think).

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#3 22-10-2012 07:40PM

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Security Manager Plus from ManageEngine will patch Linux and Windows systems. Not sure about Solaris. http://www.manageengine.com/products/security-manager/patch-management.html

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#4 28-10-2012 11:31PM

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If the environment is just RH and Centos then take a look @ http://spacewalk.redhat.com/

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#5 29-10-2012 01:30PM

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Puppet all the way

It takes a bit of setting up but after that it is great :cool:

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