Tag: Patch Management

VMware Update Manager – Part Three: Creating and Modifying Baseline Groups

February 5, 2015

By default, two dynamic baseline are available – Critical and Non-Critical. The Critical baseline will contain all patches where the severity is ‘Critical’, whilst the Non-Critical baseline will contain all other patches.  In order to create a new baseline from the vSphere Web Client browse to Home > Solutions and Applications > Update Manager > … More VMware Update Manager – Part Three: Creating and Modifying Baseline Groups

VMware Update Manager – Part Two: Configuring VMware Update Manager (VUM)

February 5, 2015

In order to modify the Download Settings of the VMware Update Manager (VUM) from the vSphere Client browse to Home > Solutions and Applications > Update Manager > Download Settings. If you have a proxy server installed on your local area network to act as an intermediary for requests from the VUM component, the download … More VMware Update Manager – Part Two: Configuring VMware Update Manager (VUM)

Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

March 25, 2014

I recently wrote about checking the last success time of Windows Update and reporting this to Nagios (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-mj). Now what happens if you do not use Windows Update as your patch management solution. In my case I have been managing the installation of updates using WUInstall (http://www.wuinstall.com). When my updates are installed the registry is … More Monitor WUInstall status in Nagios XI

Patch Management for guest VMs with Windows Update Server and WuInstall on vSphere

January 24, 2014

I previously detailed steps to automate approved updates from a WSUS server with WUInstall (https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/patch-management-with-windows-update-server-and-wuinstall/) which focused on installing updates on Amazon Web Services EC2 instances. I have recently modified the process to take into account VM guests in a vSphere environment ,using the same process of client side targeting and executing WuInstall on the … More Patch Management for guest VMs with Windows Update Server and WuInstall on vSphere

Patch Management with Windows Update Server and WuInstall

September 24, 2013

I was recently looking to schedule approved updates from Windows Update Server and schedule updates with finer granularity than those provided by the Windows Update Services client. I discovered a command line utility called WuInstall  (http://www.wuinstall.com/index.php/en) which allows for updates to be installed on demand. As part of this solution, I still required updates to … More Patch Management with Windows Update Server and WuInstall