APMS - Automated Patch Management System

Patch management is typically a very difficult and costly task to perform. The reasons include:

• Large data centers have hundreds or thousands of systems requiring updates
• Each system requires a custom set of updates
• Relatively short time period between update releases
• Various source media and/or locations for update components
• Lack of consistent approach to patch management

TriParadigm approaches these problems from a business continuity perspective and has determined the best solution is to centralize patch management into a locally managed system. Each system is analyized to determine it's required updates and downloads these updates from one or more sources to a centralized server. System administrators are automatically notified when critical updates are available and prepares those systems for scheduled maintenance.

Since high availability and disaster recovery clusters require that updates be applied across all nodes of the cluster, these systems are analyzed and scheduled as a group.