WSUS Offline Update VS The Dude

I think he was talking about https://wsusoffline.net/ Which I used forever ago but seems like it's abandonware since 2020. Source: about 1 year ago

That being said, you can try generating a full update package with WSUSOffline and let it pull all the latest available updates, and then use that to update the problematic servers and see if you're lucky. Source: about 1 year ago

It doesn't sound like there's anybody around with sufficient knowledge to properly administer Active Directory; so you should probably avoid it. There are also any number of RMM utilities that handle Windows patch management. And there are also manual tools like WSUSOffline that could be leveraged. Source: over 1 year ago

Use WSUS Offline to bring your base install as up-to-date as possible first, and then run against WSUS or Windows Update for anything left. Source: over 2 years ago

Https://wsusoffline.net/ is an option if you can't make a dedicated WSUS server. Source: almost 3 years ago

An incredibly powerful free tool that has been around a long time is Mikrotik's 'The Dude'. Source: about 1 year ago

If you have a powerful enough router in the network, one of your options is to use The DUDE (Documentation). Note that DUDE requires IP access to WinBox from the management network. For some more features, you should also enable SNMP on your routers. DUDE server can also host a syslog server, so you can have centralized log ingestion. The downside of this solution is that it's unfortunately not a fully-featured... Source: over 1 year ago

“The Dude” is what the tool is called (yeah I don’t know why they called it that either). It’s a client-server application and the server nowadays only runs on a Mikrotik router as a separate package. You could use any Mikrotik router but since it’s heavy on logging I use a Mikrotik CHR as a VM just to host the dude. The free CHR license gives you 1Mbps throughput which for SNMP monitoring is plenty. Source: about 2 years ago

MikroTik has a software called The Dude, that runs on some sort of computer acting as a server (an always on computer to receive, monitor, and store the data collected from the statistics). This would be the best way to achieve what you want to do (collecting user usage statistics and storing it in one place). Source: about 2 years ago

Https://mikrotik.com/thedude Supports SNMP, ICMP, DNS and TCP monitoring for devices that support it. Source: over 2 years ago