[Discuss] Patch/Server management software

Matt Shields matt at mattshields.org
Tue Mar 26 11:51:35 EDT 2013


Love puppet for config management, but last time I used Puppet it was
servers checking in to see what it should do not me seeing what needs
to be updating and selectively updating what I want and when I want.

Matt


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Drew Van Zandt
<drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean something like Puppet or Chef?  Or something orthogonal to those
> features?
>
> http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-vs-chef
>
> Drew Van Zandt
> Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
> Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Matt Shields <matt at mattshields.org> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know of software that will give me a dashboard of my servers in
>> my network, what software is installed on them, what software needs to
>> be updated and let me target a remote update for those pieces of
>> software.  Say for example there's an SSH update for my CentOS 5.6
>> boxes, I hit one button and all those remote machines update that
>> package.  Or there is a Windows update for IIS, again one button push
>> tells those hosts to apply that update.
>>
>> Also, it would be ideal that this software would have a dashboard that
>> can be used in our NOC to show threat level
>>
>> Matt
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