5. Symantec Figure 5: Symantecâs web-interface doesnât clearly show the deploym ent progress of agents and patches Symantec was placed fourth with less than 1% difference to Lumension. Beside Windows systems Symantec also provides patch management for Mac OS X, Red Hat and SUSE Linux. patch management solution consists of network agents on the client machines, which report the installed applications to the central management console. From the management console the system administrator sees all outdated systems and can schedule the installation of updates.