OT:Remote Software Management

[Chris Brannon]

For windows you might want to look into Altiris and UpdateEXPERT.  The
latter can only distribute MS patches, I think, but is much cheaper and
less involved than Altiris.  I don't personally use either, though, so I
can't offer much more info.

Regards,
Chris

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Mike Shaw wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to see what other people are doing for Remote
> Software Management, especially in a heterogeneous
> environment.  My current situation is that I have Sun
> Servers, Linux Servers and Windows Desktops and
> Servers.
> I'm using:
>
> - Sun's pprosvc for the Suns
> - up2date for Redhat Linux machines
> - yast for SuSE Linux machines
> - manual updates for Windows machines(hey, I'm a UNIX
>   admin - not a miracle worker!)
>
> Anyway the pprosvc seems to work okay for the Sun
> machines and likewise up2date and yast, although it
> would be nice to narrow this down to one interface for
> both distros(thoughts on apt-ifing these guys?).  But,
> my main problem is the Windows side.  I have images
> for deploying and redeploying machines, but my problem
> is updating them without having to VNC to every single
> one.  Is there an up2date/yast/apt like tool for
> windows anywhere?  My googling has come up with
> nothing viable.
>
> Any thoughts on this would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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Regards,
Chris