Systems set manager

In this section, we will learn how we can push patches at once to multiple systems that are a part of the Systems Group that we have created.

Systems Set Manager (SSM) allows the administrator to work on multiple systems at a time. It makes the patching activity much simpler.

In the previous section, in order to patch a system, we manually went inside the system, then selected updates and pushed it to individual servers. This is not an ideal method, especially when you have a large number of servers that are available.

Let's look into how we can push a patch to multiple servers at once with the help of SSM.

In order to push patches to multiple servers with the help of SSM, we need to first add all the systems under SSM. ...

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