Comments on: The Importance of Deploying a Patch Management Process

By: Morris

Morris — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:10:34 +0000

We sysadmins frequently forget and openly dislike the fact that an essential part of our jobs – like 70 or 80 per cent is pure administrative chores rather than hard technical skills but if we don’t do our homework, the mess becomes huge. Thanks for the reminder.

By: @Furius_Geek

@Furius_Geek — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:49:14 +0000

Patching up a software or an application is one of the major reasons why IT management solutions is a growing business these days. Systems such as license management, patch management, and change management make businesses more process-efficient and cost-effective.

Patch management, for instance, can and will make or break any organization’s hardware and software infrastructures. If patching is not immediately implemented, a company could halt its business operations, which will then affect its performance to customers, and could eventually led to profit loss.

By: Calvin McArthur

Calvin McArthur — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:34:09 +0000

That last paragraph sums it up pretty tidily. Better to take the time and draw out your plan for inevitable and indeed crucial patches rather than have something go haywire on you and spend triple that time trying to get everything back in working order with people breathing down your neck about lost productivity. It really is always better to be safe than sorry.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 04:31:29 +0000

It’s also a good idea to subscribe to vendor mailing lists to help identify when patches are available. the OS will usually have a package management system that can alert to available updates, but otherwise the best way to find out what updates are critical is to subscribe to the list from the developers.