Patch Management

[Damsonuk]

Patch management for windows servers

Although windows updates can be installed through Pulseway this is a manual process.

Is there a patch management module for this?

We could approve important/critical updates on certain servers to be automatically installed on a specific day.

Also notifications to let us know updates have been installed and a reboot is required.

[Chris]

Hi,

This is not yet supported by Pulseway, patch management is something we want to get in the future, no immediate plans though.

Chris

Edited November 5, 2015 by Chris

[A N T]

Hi,

I have just started a trial of Pulseway and really liking it.

I imagine we are going to have between 200 - 300 managed computers / servers.

Manually patching without full patch management is going to get boring fast.

Cheers
Ant

[Martin Stevnhoved]

Hi Ant.

We are doing patch management via normal Windows Updates on clients, and via scripts in Scheduled Tasks on server.
It is working great, we are not notified of missing updates.

Pulseway can notify when a critical update is missing, but we would like to put a threshold on it, first notify after X days.
So we have made this feature request: http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/1443-windows-updates-can-we-ignore-the-last-x-days/ 
You can give it a +1 if you like the idea.

Br, Martin.  

 

[A N T]

Hi Martin,

I have been doing some testing using the Pulseway integration into Windows Update and picking on random servers in the evening and it has patched all without fail. This really does work well, but could be quite a chore when we roll our from testing to production on a few hundred machines.

Would you be kind enough to share your script you are using with Scheduled Tasks?

Kr, Ant

[Martin Stevnhoved]

Hi.

Here is the script to install updates.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387102(v=vs.85).aspx

It is possible to update the script with you own logic and policies.

You could also look at https://www.wuinstall.com/

Br, Martin.

 

[Ed S]

+1 for outstanding patch management w/ scheduling - updating other programs would be good too.

[Chris]

There is a way to update third party applications with Pulseway: Ninite One Pro plugin.

Chris

[PCPro]

Having a delay is critical to this capability as I get hammered with notifications on Patch Tuesday.  Being able to delay notifications for a few days after Patch Tuesday at a minimum is highly desireable.