SolarWinds Patch Manager

Patch Mgr review

What do you like best? Love the software where I can push out updates to 3rd party updates like flash, java, and chrome with a breeze. What do you dislike? Can’t push out Mac updates and support to custom packages is minimal. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Allowing us to keep software like java and flash which get updated frequently installed on our client machines. Machines are kept up to date weekly instead of manually updating ...

The software works well for patching our computers

What do you like best? I like that it finds the patches needed, keeps all the computers updated and alerts me if it runs into a problem What do you dislike? Setup was alittle difficult and updates to the software seem to cause small problems What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are maintaing our patch compliance and it keeps me from having to update each computer manually

Patch review the winds

What do you like best? Solarwinds ability to bring all its products under one central view. This helps with corrilation of events and remediation efforts. What do you dislike? Nothing, like I said the solarwinds suit is a+ What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The abilty to manage large scale patching

Patch Management

What do you like best? Use it to replace the free SUS and have instant access to reporting. What do you dislike? Although it's similar look to Microsoft sus there's still that learning curve we're going through. Recommendations to others considering the product: Request demo What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Microsoft SUS is too limited. This allows us to see more details and aware of successful installations.

Patch manager has saved me many hours of watching patches!

What do you like best? I recently purchased patch manager, ever since then I’ve saved so much time watch and waiting for patches. I can patch at tonight while I’m sleeping! What do you dislike? Sometimes the GUI is confusing and hard to decipher! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Real time patching has solved many business needs, from patches for virus’s to just updating service packs.

Helpful

What do you like best? Great software, helpful with patching pcs What do you dislike? Nothing seems to work great for our business What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Patching servers and workstations

Easy install and configuration.

What do you like best? I like that the installer did not require me to manually download and install SQL and WSUS. They were deployed automatically as a part of the installation. The to do list is also helpful in configuring the server. Once I got Patch Manager working it greatly reduced our effort to keep systems updates. What do you dislike? Every time I attempted a connection Patch Manager displayed a permissions error. After a while I figured out that WSUS and Patch Manager can't ...

Simplify server patching.

What do you like best? It is an easy and reliable way to schedule automated patching. What do you dislike? Reporting isn't as flexible as I would like. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to display a graph of machines missing patches that are more than 30 days old. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you already use Solar Winds, add Patch Manager. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Security and ...

Good Patch Management Solution

What do you like best? Patch Manager is great if you use Solarwinds N-Central or RMM. It has very thorough integration with both products. What do you dislike? Patch Manager reporting is not very user friendly, and does not offer a ton of customization. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using Patch Manager to keep client devices up-to-date with the latest patches, utilizing auto-approvals to quickly push through the most ...

Is good

What do you like best? It's good. It helps me manage patches!!! What do you dislike? Nothing. When my patches need to be managed it does that. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I need patches. Solarwinds helps me patch.