RE: pushing updates to windows clients

["Raoul Armfield" <armfield () amnh org>]

:-----Original Message-----
:From: Depp, Dennis M. [mailto:deppdm () ornl gov] 
:Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:46 PM
:To: Raoul Armfield; security-basics () securityfocus com
:Subject: RE: pushing updates to windows clients
:
:If you are really looking for a push technology, SUS is not it.  SUS
:utilizes a pull technology where the client requests the updates from
:the SUS server.  The end result is the client gets patch with the
:appearance of the patches being pushed.
:
:Denny 
:

To me it is not important if it is a push or pull method.  My question
is whether Netoctopus from Netopia is a reasonable solution.  We already
invested in it for other features and wanted to know if we should look
at other solutions for patch management or if people had success using
Netoctopus.


Raoul


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