RE: [SA-list] AV Check

[Dirk Bulinckx]

No the idea is not to check every PC, just the system running SA.  And comparing this to the version that the AV vendor has (or we would have in a central location). With a check to the centeral location, we could see how old your version is (by using a timestamp).   We're currently just talking about this to see if     a) it can be done <- that was easy, yes it can be done     b) cost of it     c) are people interested in this     d) anything else :-)     Dirk Bulinckx.   From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry George Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:47 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check   We use SAVCE with its own management console. That tells me right there which definition version each client is using. Of course it doesn’t tell me the clients that aren’t reporting back to the console.   If I understand what’s being asked for here I’m not sure that I want to set up a check to every PC in the company to check which version they have. What if the PC turned off? How would you set up a schedule when the schedule isn’t known?   I just joined on the thread this morning so I may be missing important information on how this is supposed to be set up in theory.   Barry     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: August 22, 2006 10:36 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check   Others are seeing this as something usefull?   Dirk Bulinckx.     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Shook Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:46 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check Well, with such a list the  you could tell folks just how out of date their version of AV is, as Ian would like.   I'd have to agree, as having a version that is 1 or days out of date isn't really something I want to woken up at 3am over.   So, this way you can give the users some parameters (How old, x number of version old, etc...)   You could even use this to send a non-down email that a new version became available 5 minutes ago, without incurring a DOWN penalty that might be set if the version is 5 days old.   Michael D. Shook Technical Analyst Saddle Creek Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 863 668 4477 (work) 863 860 4070 (cell) 863 665 1261 (fax) www.saddlecrk.com     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:31 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check Can you elaborate? What would be the purpose of such a list?   Dirk Bulinckx.     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Shook Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:11 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check I'm gonna go WAY out on a limb here....   But if Woodstone (or another party) were to keep a publicly available cache file of all the versions and the dates they first appeared, then the check could reference that list instead of just grabbing the most recent version number from the manufacturer.   Perhaps with a few mirror sites around the globe...   I wouldn't mind hosting such a list on the Users Group site.   Michael D. Shook Technical Analyst Saddle Creek Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 863 668 4477 (work) 863 860 4070 (cell) 863 665 1261 (fax) www.saddlecrk.com     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:31 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] AV Check Not all the AV products have "numbers" as version, so that wouldn't realy work out well...   Dirk Bulinckx.     From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:21 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] AV Check A suggestion for an enhancement to the AV check (which is working very well). I wonder if it would be possible to measure not whether the local version equals the remote version, but the difference between them. In other words, if the local version was 543 and the remote version was 544, the result would be -1. The benefit of this is that you could choose to ignore (or treat differently) a machine that is only just out of date, but take more seriously a machine that was several versions out of date. Just a thought. Ian _________________________________ Ian K Gray OEL IS - European Infrastructure Support Tel: +44 1236 502661 Mob: +44 7881 518854 To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. 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