From: Geoff Lane (zzassgl@zoe.mcc.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 07:44:34 EDT
Since the "official" view of patchk is that it's dead[1], I've been looking
at the available alternatives.
Straight off I see that PatchPro Interactive and PatchPro Expert are useless
to us as they are purely interactive - with 50 odd machines to look after
whatever replaces patchk has generate reports automatically.
PatchPro 2.2 looks more useful but we don't add patches without first
checking them so the automatic installation features can't be used. As we
can't reboot our systems on demand, any patch that needs a reboot must be
reviewed for importance. The "smpatch analyze" command looks useful at first
glance but the report it generates doesn't distinguish between security,
recommended and general patches at all! Neither does it indicate
dependencies, reboot needs, patch ages or any of the information a sysadmin
might need to access the urgency of a particular patch. So it turns out
that we can't make use of PatchPro.
Does anybody know if the patchdiag.xref file will continue to be updated and
made available? If so, I suppose I'll just have to write my own patch
management scheme... again.
[1] "As of February 29, Patch Check will no longer be available for
download. Please transition to using Patch Manager by that date."
http://uk.sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patchk
Actually, it remains available as of today.
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