[hobbit] monitoring patch status?

[Martin Flemming]

Yep, somedays ago i've "found" pca  too,
and a xymon-module for it will be great !

.. maybe for redhat-clones there will be yum to use,
has got somebody work for it ? :-)

cheers,
 	martin

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, T.J. Yang wrote:

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> From: "Asif Iqbal" <vadud3 at gmail.com>
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>>  I would love to use it for solaris as well. What has anyone done on
>>  that venue? I can see pca as
>>  a good tool for that.
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> Thanks for pca pointer, this is definitely a very-nice-to-have xymon module.
> I am checking it out by implementing it on my test xymon environment.
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>>  pca - analyze, download and install patches for Sun Solaris
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> "pca --xymon" is what I am looking to implement. it won't download and 
> install patch
> just alert the missing patches on xymon server under pca column.
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> tj
>>  On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:38 PM, McDonald, Dan
>>  <Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com> wrote:
>> >  I got hit up with the task of using xymon to monitor whether our windows
>> >  servers are patched.  I saw a plugin on deadcat that requires licensed
>> >  software from shavlik.com, (and being over 4 years old, I have no idea
>> >  if it works with bbwin, or if shavlik's api was still the same) but
>> >  wondered if there were any other solutions out there.  Minimum
>> >  functionality is a list of applied patches that would show up on the
>> >  client data link.
>> > 
>> >  For our linux boxes, I could probably just rpm -qa --last | head and
>> >  check the date that an RPM was last installed - if it's more than a
>> >  month, there is probably a problem...  But I don't know enough about
>> >  windows to come up with a simple solution for those boxes.
>> > 
>> >  --
>> >  Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
>> >  Austin Energy
>> >  http://www.austinenergy.com
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