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ZLM 7 whitepaper November 9, 2005

Posted by evilzenscientist in : Linux, ZENworks, evilzenscientist , add a comment

Sigh.

I keep getting other priorities. Sorry to anyone who is waiting.

I’ll post a mindmap of where I am soon - problem is that there are still a lot of questions that I need to get answered on this.

My main pain right now is getting SLES 9 support packs cleanly into ZLM7 - this is driven by a customer request. My other pain is some of the internal workings of ZLM and how to best document that.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Slashdot effect over?

Posted by evilzenscientist in : 'Web 2.0', evilzenscientist, fun stuff , add a comment

For years I’ve hit Slashdot as a morning ritual; what’s going on in the world of IT. It’s been one of my staples for an (almost) accurate snapshot of the zeitgeist.

Recently I’ve been using Digg and Memeorandum - often in addition to Slashdot.

I saw an interesting post on TechCrunch pointing out that Digg has grown almost as large as Slashdot in just one year (in terms of traffic).

Wow.

Microsoft SUS failures?

Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist, patching , 1 comment so far

It’s another big patch week - and SANS are reporting that Microsoft SUS is having problems:

Microsoft SUS not playing well (NEW)
Published: 2005-11-09,
Last Updated: 2005-11-09 16:45:28 UTC by Tony Carothers (Version: 2(click to highlight changes))

Matthew Bailey just provided this input in regards to the SUS problems that are occuring

“I found this posting at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.softwareupdatesvcs

The SUS 1.0 update cab is delayed today but will be published at ~ 5:00pm PDT today.

The WSUS cab has no delays and has been published.”

We’ve had a busy last ~12 hours. Reports are coming in that Microsoft’s SUS is not updating correctly, causing a lot of readers to have to manually roll out patches. If anybody has found this to not be the case, or found a way to kick SUS into gear, please send us a note, and I’ll get it out to the rest of the world :-)

Most enterprises who are relying on SUS/WSUS for deployment of patches are still on SUS (the older technology). This is a pretty important process for enterprises - patching, and the race to patch on time, is causing a lot of IT administrator headaches.

For SUS to fail and administrators to have to manually roll out patches is a disaster; I am sure that after this many CIOs will mandate a close look at other options; maybe this will cause them to switch platforms, or at least look at a more robust patch solution.