Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?

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

For my understanding, there is no patch concept for Linux OS.
Solaris and HP-UX are two Unix OS that I need to deal with have OS patches.
Windows has patch also but is there an open source pca script  doing patch 
report ?


tj

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From: "Martin Flemming" <martin.flemming (at) desy.de>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:59 AM
To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?

> 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:
>
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  Asif Iqbal
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