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monitoring patch status?

list Asif Iqbal
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:24:52 -0500
Message-Id: <user-ba10b79f580b@xymon.invalid>

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.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:38 PM, McDonald, Dan
<user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid> 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.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com

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