VMware VCentre protect
Those of us who have to manage patching have a massive problem. There are many vulnerabilities are in applications and plug-ins which aren't covered by any kind of automated process to apply, yes some do come with updating tools but require admin rights to apply patches and you have no visibility or control over what gets applied and when. This is where products like VMware's VCenter protect come in. They allow you patch many different products, both freeware a paid for apps. Great you may think, well yes in principle but ultimately a product like this needs to major or a three things Usability Reporting Applying patches Unfortunately VVP fails on two of these, not just a little fail in my book but miss by a mile. Yes it does apply patches, as best as I can tell, the fails are down to useability and reporting of information. First fail is that there is no remote console, you can only run it on the server you installed it on. Bad. You start by creating management g