Impero Patch Management - Is it working?

[steven_layton_sl]

Hi all

 

I'm not totally sure our Impero Patch Management is working correctly. Below is how I have broken my network up, with the scans taking part across two days, with each day staggering the start of the scans. It has been set up like this for months and months.

 

 

If I take a look at one of my IT Suites, Room 9, it is showing a huge difference in the number of missing patches. Why would some stations be so out of date?

 

 

How do I kick off an ad-hoc manual update of each profile group? There is the "Scan Machines for missing patches" icon, but this just seems to scan, and never install missing updates.

 

I'd truly like to be able to rely on Patch Management, but at the moment I can't. This is either because I'm doing something wrong, or its just busted!

 

Ideas anyone?

Edited March 21, 2016 by steven_layton_sl

[RichCowell]

I was advised to space them out more than in 15 minute blocks (I do them about an hour apart now), and not to have more than about 30 PCs per group/profile...

 

Also - the Missing Patch count includes all the patches you've not ticked to install in that group - e.g. Microsoft, we use WSUS so don't need Patch for that, yet it shows any missing MS patches in there...

 

As for forcing them to update, I just edit the day & time for that profile and force it that way...

 

Not ideal I know, but it works fairly well for me...

Edited March 21, 2016 by RichCowell