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Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?



Ive two hp scripts that may by of use, work on hpux 11.0

ckswstate; a one line that  check is all  software been configed:
/usr/sbin/swlist -l  fileset  -a state
and
cksupers that will take a list and return if the patches or active, not present superseded. So if can get a list of patches from hp I believe this will work for you purpose.

If interest I'll post but will take a few days as it on my classed side.
T.J. Yang wrote:
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:



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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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