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pawpaw
For this case can I assume the NIM+Endpoint acts like a satellite server?
If you define "acts like" losely enough: yes.
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pawpaw
Seems like product from lumension (Patch and Remediation) can do similar stuff.
Are there any other products out there? I am tasked to do an evaluation on the various products.
With 30-50 LPARs, like you said above, you should definitely have a NIM-Server anyways. NIM-Servers are not only helpful in software deployment but also for configuration management, installation of new systems, systems backup, system recovery and the like.
The big exception being a heavily firewalled environment: this is where NIM servers really suck, because they need an awful lot of ports and most firewall people are reluctant to tear so many big holes into their firewall. I remember working once in a shop where you couldn't even "ping" the default gateway. One needed to get special permission to even use ping to test the failover node on a cluster. NIM was not used there.
If you do not have such a paranoid environment (and, frankly, i do not wish anybody to undergo such a torture) i strongly suggest to set up a NIM server and make all your LPARs NIM clients. It is quite easy to do, a matter of maybe 3-4 hours, all in all, to set up the basic structures and the resources needed most.
I hope this helps.
bakunin