how do you do linux patching in enterprise environment?

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what are the most common tool that you used for linux patching in enterprise environment?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '10 at 14:37

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We use yum, against local repositories maintained with mrepo. Those repos include, among others, RHEL updates from RHN, and the VMware Tools OS Specific packages.

answered May 13 '10 at 14:37

TCampbell

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '10 at 15:27

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Puppet or similar is a common solution -- This is a bit more than just "patching", but in large environments configuration/deployment management tools bring other benefits that you'll want too :)

answered May 13 '10 at 15:27

voretaq7

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '10 at 14:28

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rpm, make, and ssh.

answered May 13 '10 at 14:28

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 13 '10 at 15:29

We're a SLES office here. Because of that, Novell's SMT (Subscription Management Tool) works exceedingly well for us. When setting up new servers we register against our SMT server and it handles all of the registration and repo setup. We'll still have to set an update policy for each server, but it works well.

Which is to say, voretaq7 nailed it in the comment on your post. It depends on what Linux you're using.

how do you do linux patching in enterprise environment?

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