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. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
