What's the latest PM news?

Question

Hi ding​, could you let us know when we should expect some product news on Patch Manager please. Things appear to have gone slow from what I have read on other posts, and as a customer who has just purchased the product as we are long standing SW customers it would be good to have an update "what we are working on".

Thanks

Lufffunk

lufffunk · Answer

Thanks all for getting back to me so quickly. It would be good to see some more activity going on here, but sounds like you do have some more plans in the pipeline. Will be keeping an eye on how things progress. Ding - could you look at this question please regards using PM connecting through firewalls? Design has actually changed a little since I posed this (WSUS all on a single server now), but some machines are still on a firewalled off network. Need to be able to use the single PM server to poll all machines without opening up the firewall for WMI. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/107657 Thanks Mike

ding · Answer

Hi Mike! Sorry I missed your initial inquiry about Patch Manager. We were going through some organizational changes in engineering a few months back, but we are now back to our normal cadence. We are working on finalizing the road map for our upcoming release so you will see that page updated soon. I would be more than happy to speak to you about Patch Manager if you would like to have a conversation.

adatole · Answer

Typically, everything that is fit to print is on the "What We're Working On Now" pages for each product (in the case of Patch Manager, it's here: What We're Working On - SolarWinds Patch Manager (Updated May 29, 2015) ). If (as is the case here) the page hasn't been updated, the comments will usually have some interesting tidbits.

But ultimately, that page contains everything we are ABLE to say at this time about roadmap, timing, etc.

But more importantly than OUR development plans is what YOU want to see. What new features or use cases would you like us to address? If you've been digging through the Patch Manager Feature Requests (found here: Patch Manager Feature Requests ), make sure you vote them up, and then let us know which of those features is important to you, and why.

HTH

- Leon