Automate patching groups based on Patch Tuesday?

clkuhl

Hello all,

I'm new to the Patch Manager software.  I was wondering how everyone else was handling deploying their patches out based on Patch Tuesday?  For example, this month, Patch Tuesday happened 14th of May (2nd Tuesday), but our first set of patching occurs on that following Thursday (in this case, 3rd Thursday of the month).  So every month, we have to go in and update the scheduled task to align with 2nd or 3rd Thursday, etc.  Is there anyway (looked and can't find it), where we can say, patch Tuesday + x days to automate it? 

Just curious.

Thanks,

Chris

pensrule82

We have achieved this type of automation.  The way we handle it is to use Tuesdays as the main day. So patch Tuesday is always the 2nd Tuesday of the month, the next week is always the 3rd Tuesday.  When there is 5 weeks, you just skip the week.  In order to land on a day other than Tuesday, you would use the option of additional offset days. 

For example if you wanted to have it patch on Friday week 3.  You schedule it for Monthly, the third Tuesday of every month with and offset of 3 days.  That way it always happens on the Friday after the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

The option is right under the monthly chose in the schedule.