Patch Management & Identifying Hosts

From: Ray (res0cu5i@verizon@net)
Date: 02/27/03 

From: "Ray" <res0cu5i@verizon@net>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:43:31 -0500

    I'm working on building a patch management system for 500+ servers. In
addition to hfnetchk (both MS & Shavlik) I've started to evaluate 3rd party
tools. I've read Ch.5: Patch Management of the (MS) Security Operations
Guide for Win2k Srv. The catchy part deals with identifying (OS, patch
status & installed apps) all the hosts on the network. Other than logging
into each server and going through Control Panel (brute force & ignorance)
how can this be done? How can this info be gathered and put in a database?
Thanks in advance.
Ray

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