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:user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Saturday, 15 November 2008 11:19 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
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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