Patch management for your remote/mobile workforce

Curious to know how folks are handling patch management for their remote users. Many of my laptop users are not tied to our local office or even to our VPN connection. They are however more often than not connected to the internet so it would be nice to find a patching product that can patch them over the internet. I know logmein has a patch management module but there's no way I'm upgrading to that level.
Any other options out there?
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

873768 wrote:
Hi, gurus:
What is a good Apps DBA should be doing as far as it relates to patch management. What are the proactive tasks we would perform, what are the
monthly deliverables we would provide, etc?
Thank you for your advice in advance.
What's the Best Way to Patch an E-Business Suite Environment?
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/general_patching_strategies_for_e
Identifying Recommended Patches for E-Business Suite Environments
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/recommended_patches_for_oracle_e
Oracle Applications Current Patchset Comparison Utility - patchsets.sh [ID 139684.1]
Thanks,
Hussein

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i am still getting the status as 'E' in the NDS table..........any clue on this.is it because o fthe XAI sender..
what is expected to be seen in XDS table.
Edited by: user652581 on May 11, 2009 4:02 AM

Patch 140476-01 breaks update manager for Solaris 9.

I just noticed that deferred patches werent being applied on my solaris 9 machines.
It turns out that patch 140476-01 which updates the certificates also manages to delete the file /etc/init.d/installupdates.
Since that shutdown script is the thing that applies the deferred patches, not surprisingly they're no longer being installed.
That file is no longer needed on solaris 10 since it got converted to a service, but its still needed on solaris 9...
It seems lately that the update connection software gets broken with monotonous regularity.
The solaris 10 version is finally working properly again after many months. But now the solaris 9 version is broken.
Not your best work, Sun...

Forum Moderator:
While most of my systems are Solaris 10, I still have one rarely used S9 system that has 140476-01 that deleted /etc/init.d/installupdates. Is there any update on when we can expect 140476-02 (presumably ....) that will fix this issue?
Thanks,
John
p.s. From my perspective, updatemanager has been working very nicely on S10_x86 for several months .... I have not experienced any of the "hanging" during the installation of multiple patches that were problematic for some time. Thank you and your updatemanager colleagues for your diligence in improving this important tool.

What is the best approach for patch management

Hi,
I'm new about patch management. I would like to ask you how manage patch on few Solaris 10 servers using command line.
I would like to know:
1. Using only command line how to download latest patches
2. There are some dependencies how to check this and install only those patches which meets dependecy requirements?
3. Is there possiblity to atomate this?
4. Is it possible to have one patch server and others servers will download and install this patches?
5. What if some patches are not installed?
6. How to find out which patches are necessary and which patches don't have to be installed? Or maybe or patches to be installed?
7. Could you please describe your approach for managing patches? Or maybe you can recommend some books/web page/articles that can help me to understand patch management.
Thanks in advance,
Daniel

smpatch is the command line tool to manage solaris patching. first you need to register yours system - this can be done using sconadm, detailed here:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-82688-1
smpatch analyze will list all required patches and resolve dependencies. smpatch download will download all the required patches, and smpatch update will apply them. You can set up a Local Patch Server to download patches, then your clients will download the patches they require from it. This is detailed in chapter 6 of the update connection admin guide

Patch management for your remote/mobile workforce

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