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