What Patching Policy Should I Adopt For My Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers?
Issue
- In large estates of RHEL servers, where there is a restrictive change control policy, it is possible that systems may not receive errata in a timely fashion. In some cases this can lead to unexpected reboot events for a problem that has already been fixed in errata.
- What patch strategy should I use for my servers?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, All Versions
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