monitoring patch status?

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" <user-f286aaa49a76@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:59 AM
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
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" <user-6f4b51ac2a40@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 6:24 PM
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
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
 <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.

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

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