[hobbit] monitoring patch status?

[Everett, Vernon]

Hi Guys

I have used this small report to assist us (Solaris mob) and the Wintel guys to determine kernel update/revision level, which we use an an indication of patch level.

I have created a directory, /usr/lib/hobbit/custom where I put this sort of script.

#!/bin/ksh
export BBHOME=/usr/lib/hobbit
typeset -L20 HOST
mkdir -p /usr/lib/hobbit/custom/data
cd /usr/lib/hobbit/custom/data
INCLUDES=$(grep ^include /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts | awk '{ print $2 }')
cat /etc/hobbit/bb-hosts $INCLUDES | egrep -h -v "^#|^page|^$|^subpage|^group|^include" | awk '{ print $2 }' \
   | while read HOSTNAME
     do
        wget -O $HOSTNAME -o /dev/null http://hobbit/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh\?HOST\=$HOSTNAME\&SERVICE\=info &
     done
wait
for HOSTNAME in /usr/lib/hobbit/custom/data/*
do
   OSVER=$(grep OS: $HOSTNAME | sed 's/OS://g'| sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba')
   HOST=$(basename $HOSTNAME)
   echo "$HOST  $OSVER"
done
rm /usr/lib/hobbit/custom/data/*

It works for us, but your mileage may vary.

Cheers
     V




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Flemming [mailto:martin.flemming at desy.de]
Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:19 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring patch status?


Ok, my fault ... it's only a update not a patch-mechanism ..

        martin

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Rich Smrcina wrote:

> 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
>
> The enterprise or server versions of major distros (like SLES) have
> regular patch distribution and notification processes.  If specific
> people in an installation sign up for notification of patches, they
> are sent emails that patches are available.  Patch servers can also be
> set up that can download these patches so that the internal servers
> can have the patches available without having to all fetch them from the distributor (Novell in this case).
> I'm going to guess that RedHat Satellite does something similar.
>
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        Martin Flemming


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