Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com>]

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From: "Asif Iqbal" <vadud3 (at) gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:24 PM
To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?

> 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.

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.

>  pca - analyze, download and install patches for Sun Solaris

"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.


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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