On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Nick Anderson wrote:
On 04/06/2012 02:03 PM, Brian J. Atkisson wrote:
With the number of personal mobile devices on the corporate network
now, you really have to treat every device, workstation and laptop
as hostile. That said, I have heard good things about Big Fix,
which supposedly is able to manage Windows, Mac and Linux clients
(IBM purchased them:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/endpoint/)
You could also use something like CFEngine, Puppet or Chef. I don't
know about Chef, but I have seen mailing list activity about using at
least CFEngine and Puppet for workstation management. I know both
CFEngine and Puppet have at least some support for windows.
The nice thing about BigFix is that it ties in to the vendor patch release
notification, and BigFix creates and/or bundles the fixes for you so that
it becomes very close to a fire-and-forget patch management system,
complete with all the nice reporting stuff that audit types like.
David Lang
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