Kind of. We've already got Puppet for config management on our Redhat linux servers. Puppet has less than desirable scheduling abilities, so we have a Puppet module that controls patching against our existing Redhat Satellite server and rebooting, and we use SCCM to trigger our Puppet patching module at the time we want using SCCM maintenance windows. Seems to work pretty well. We are seeing the SCCM client fail to keep running on some hosts and we haven't quite figured out why yet. There's not a lot of "my linux client is broken, how do I fix it" knowledge yet, it seems.
We haven't packaged any linux OS updates for install as a package and program as described below, though. That seems like it would be kind of a daunting task to package each one, Redhat releases patches often and there seem to be a lot. So far we've only got Redhat Linux and a couple of Oracle Linux as clients though, and no desktop flavors yet, just servers. Todd From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dzikowski, Michael Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] ConfigMgr and Unix Patching? Anyone actually patching Unix / Linux systems in production with ConfigMgr? UNIX/Linux Client: The following UNIX and Linux versions are supported in this release. * AIX Version 7.1, 6.1, 5.3 * Solaris Version 11, 10, 9 * HP-UX Version 11iv2 , 11iv3 * RHEL Version 6 , 5, 4 * SLES Version 11, 10, 9 * CentOS Version 6, 5 * Debian Version 6, 5 * Ubuntu Version 12.4 LTS, 10.4 LTS * Oracle Linux 6, 5 The following scenarios are supported by the UNIX and Linux clients: * Hardware Inventory - Hardware inventory can be viewed through Resource Explorer and can be used to create collections of UNIX and Linux computers. * Software Inventory - Through hardware inventory the list of natively installed software can be gathered from the UNIX and Linux computers - similar to add/remove programs for Windows systems. * Software Distribution - Deploy new software, update existing software and apply OS patches to collections of UNIX/Linux computers (using a package and program). Run arbitrary maintenance scripts on a collection of UNIX/Linux servers. * Secure and Authenticated Communications * Consolidated Reports Michael Dzikowski Senior Systems Engineer | Ally Technical Infrastructure - Windows Hosting [cid:[email protected]]
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