The question "[How do you approach centralised patch management for Linux?](http://serverfault.com/questions/387986/how-do-you-approach-centralised-patch-management-for-linux)" seems to fall pretty straightforwardly under the auspices of "[Operations, maintenance, and monitoring](http://serverfault.com/help/on-topic)".

Despite the fact that it uses the word "you" it really isn't a particularly subjective or opinion-based question (any more than most) and it isn't really a product question, either, since the guy doesn't say s/he wants a list of products; just a solution to the given (pretty common) ops problem.

I ran across it because I'm having a similar issue, and none of the provided answers are proving particularly helpful; an issue which I doubt would persist if the question were reopened (though I could be wrong).

## Clarification

I know it's less common for questions like this, so I should clarify I am not the original asker.