[TriLUG] large-scale patch rollouts?

[Jon Carnes]

RHN: http://rhn.redhat.com

You can set it all to happen automagically, or you can pop onto the web
and look at groups of machines and apply the patches to them with a
click. Nice stuff.

I used it for managing remote servers all over the world, and for
keeping them secure.

The only thing that RHN is missing is an email notification of new
vulnerabilities - it might have that now.

Jon Carnes 


On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 13:56, David R.Matusiak wrote:
> hello Linux enthusiasts --
> 
> please don't flame my foolish question, but it is possible to roll out 
> linux security patches to a network of machines at the same time?  
> also, are there any known security vulnerabilities presented by doing 
> such a thing?
> 
> i know up2date is the tool to apply patches to a single (Red Hat) 
> machine, but can this functionality be extended to tens or hundreds of 
> machines?
> 
> i'm looking for more ammunition for my "switch campaign."  can't really 
> tell people "Linux is better" if they have to waste massive amounts of 
> time applying patches across a large network of systems, ya know.
> 
> i know you can use Kickstart/Jumpstart to automate multiple system 
> builds, now i'm wondering about ways to speed up/automate on-going 
> administration.  the ideas would be primarily aimed at Windows admins, 
> so they can see an advantage in Open Source.
> 
> muchas gracias!
> dave m.