[hobbit] monitoring patch status?

[T.J. Yang]

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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>>>  Asif Iqbal
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