[hobbit] monitoring patch status?

[michael nemeth]

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present superseded.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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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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