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Opinions on Solarwinds Patch Manager vs. Barebones WSUS? (self.sysadmin)
submitted 1 year ago by TrinityTek to c/sysadmin
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Greetings, all! I'm new to Lemmy and to this community, but hoping there might be some here with opinions to offer on whether Solarwinds Patch Manager is worth the price or if I should just continue to make due with plain WSUS. Initially I found WSUS to be unreliable and a general pain in the ass, but after some tinkering I actually have it running pretty well now so I'm not as sure that I need Patch Manager.

Anyway, I'm happy to be here on Lemmy with you all and look forward to participating in this community. Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out Ivanti Security Controls (née Shavlik Patch Manager) as well. Or PDQ Inventory/Deploy. Both are better options.

[–] TrinityTek 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ivanti Security Controls is another I hadn't heard of, but we are actually using PDQ Deploy and it has proven to be a great value for us. I didn't realize Inventory included a patch management component. I will definitely check that out! Thanks.

[–] Jeearr 2 points 1 year ago

I don't have to manage Ivanti, but using it is great! The GUI is a bit all over the place but you get used to it.

[–] binkbankbonk 1 points 1 year ago

We consolidated our patch management into Qualys and dropped Ivanti Security Controls (Shavlik). I regret it. It was stupid slow but it worked so well.