Email Alerts for new Enterprise Portal Patches

[jfwebb]

When it comes to patches, we often don't realize there is a patch to download until our enterprise system breaks and someone alerts us that our services and apps aren't working. It would be great to have an email subscription that sends out notifications when a new patch is available to your version of enterprise so the patch can be installed proactively and minimize a disruption in service. 

The patchnotification utility is not what I'm looking for; while its a great tool for downloading patches once you notice a service disruption and run the tool, I'm looking for an email alert that notifies me when the patch itself is released.

[SimonSchütte_ct]

Other product but similar idea: ArcGIS Pro RSS update notifications for IT - Esri Community

You can consume https://downloads.esri.com/patch_notification/patches.json in MS Power Automate for example to  send you Notifications. 

But I agree, this should be offered per default

[CameronMcKee1]

I agree as well, email notifications about all patches would be great.  I use the ArcGIS Trust Center RSS feed, so I do at least get notified when there are security patches.

This post covers a similar topic: Subscribe to ArcGIS patch notifications - Esri Community.  It used to be possible (although not at all user friendly).  Given the very recent posts here, this is clearly a feature users want.

Rather than emails, another option could be to alert users to patch notifications when they sign into Portal.  You would probably limit this to just admins or a select group of users.

[McKinneyPatrick_PA]

I have created a python script that scrapes the Esri support website for patch listings. 

You can modify the URL scraped to match the products and versions you are interested in. 

You can also check if the date of the patch is X days or X weeks old.  That is, if you run this script every week, you would enable the logic to check for any new patches released within the last week.

The script is available at https://github.com/pmacMaps/esri-arcpy-python/blob/main/check-esri-patches-website.py.