NetChk Protect has had the ability to scan an offline Virtual Machine and deploy a package to the machine that will install when it next boots. In our next release of NetChk Protect 7.8 (Currently in Beta) we have expanded the functionality of our Hosted VM support. We have added the following features:

• Support for Templates – You can now fully patch a template just like a physical or virtual machine.
• Pre and Post Deployment Snapshot – Easy rollback for an entire deployment.
• Stateless support for Hosted Virtual Machines – Scan online, deploy offline, mix and match any way you want. It doesn’t matter to us. We will handle it.
• Disable networking while deploying to offline virtual machines – Think DR warm site. You have the machines off and ready to bring online at a moment’s notice. It would be a shame to bring them up unpatched and vulnerable. Scan them offline, deploy a package, it boots up and installs the patches in a disconnected state to keep the VM secure through the entire process. The best part is you treat it just like any other machine in our product. We do the heavy lifting.
• Scheduled deployment to offline VMs and Templates – Schedule deployments to these machines just like any other.

I invite you to do two things. First, join Kim Fors and myself this Friday as we discuss and demonstrate this functionality in a live webinar. Second, take these new features for a test drive first hand. Contact Beta@Shavlik.com for more details.

Regards,

Chris Goettl
Product Owner
Shavlik Technologies