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N-central 7.2 Providing Patch Management With N-central Setting up Patch Management in N-central N-central provides a very flexible, powerful, integrated patch distribution and management solution. The solution is based on Microsoft WSUS but all configuration and management of WSUS is managed using the N-central interface. Beyond installing WSUS, there is virtually no interaction required with the WSUS user interface. There are three phases to setting up patch management in N-central: • Configuring your WSUS servers • Creating Patch Profiles • Approving and Declining Patches Before reviewing how to configure your WSUS servers, we should first examine where you might want to install them. Common WSUS Deployment Scenarios N-central 7.2 provides a great deal of flexibility in how you deploy your WSUS servers. You can make WSUS servers available to just one customer, all customers within a Service Organization, or across all Service Organizations in your N-central server. Those WSUS servers can be either on-site (within your customer's network) or can be publicly accessible on the internet. Through patch profiles, N-central also gives you the ability to use a mix of on-site and publicly-accessible WSUS servers – giving - 4 -
N-central 7.2 Providing Patch Management With N-central you the flexibility to offer patch management to devices that are on the road (like a Salesperson's laptop) and in the office. The main advantage to using on-site WSUS servers is that they can store patches locally and distribute them to servers and workstations on the local network. This optimizes the Internet bandwidth that is used because the patches are only downloaded from the internet once. The disadvantage of on-site WSUS servers is that they can only be used for devices on the same network – as soon as a device leaves the network, it no can no longer be managed by that WSUS server. The main advantage of a publicly accessible WSUS server is that it can be used by any device that has internet access. The disadvantage of a publicly accessible WSUS server is that each patch must be downloaded separately by each device – making bandwidth consumption an issue. It is likely that you will want to use patch profiles (covered later on in this document) to have your customer's workstations and servers report to an on-site WSUS server, and your customer's laptops report to a publicly accessible WSUS server. - 5 -
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