Paul Weaver wrote: > > > Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if > > anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I > > mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux > > clients. > > The closest thing we do is monitor patches on machines. > > For debian machines, we use a modified check-apt perl script > (originally from http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/nagios, modified to > do things like run apt-get update first) > For windows machines, we snmp-poll the server and compare the listed > KB patches against an internal list > For solaris machines we're looking at check_solaris_pca > Add to that list:
Redhat / CentOS - check_yum Gentoo - check_gentoo_portage For patch monitoring on those Linux distros. I wrote both and you can get them from NagiosExchange.org. -h -- Hari Sekhon Always open to interesting opportunities http://www.linkedin.com/in/harisekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
