Patch management
To be able to schedule Patch management tasks, this would be useful for Mac devices that require Upgrade patches to be run via Patch management instead of IT Automation profiles.
This workaround is useful for Mac devices that are offline, in order to help automate pushing Upgrade patches
Stefan Ciobanu
shared this idea
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Frankie Tavares
commented
Critical for all OS to schedule. Scheduling a Reboot is awesome! But you cannot choose when to manually install and reboot patches if you want to run the command but defer it to a later time in the day.
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Steven Jackson
commented
I do find it incredible, that Atera still doesn't manage the patches for example critical Dell firmware and other such security updates for major software vendors. Please put this on the roadmap asap, as it is a massive hole in this solution
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Doug Knapfel
commented
The Patch Management within Atera is very limited and misleading. The dashboard and reporting is only focused on the Microsoft updates, so it gives customers a false sense of security thinking the device are completely patched and up to date.
Though Atera gives the option for creating automation to enable 3rd party patching via Chocolatey & Homebrew; there is no visibility into the status of those updates and are not reflected on the dashboard and reports. Ensuring that ALL products (e.g. Adobe, Citrix, Chrome...) are just as critical as applying Microsoft patches.
Atera should consider adding integrations with other software vendors (e.g. Bitdefender or Qualys) for Patch Management.