Software inventory management
Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. I am looking for recomendations for a (hopefully automed), prefereably web based tool to keep up with what versions of OS, OS patches, and ports are installed on these machines. Could anyone with experience using such a tool share their experience, both good and bad for such [ackages? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software inventory management
From: stan Subject: Software inventory management : : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. : : I am looking for recomendations for a (hopefully automed), prefereably : web based tool to keep up with what versions of OS, OS patches, and ports : are installed on these machines. : : Could anyone with experience using such a tool share their experience, : both good and bad for such [ackages? : I am not sure about any 'automated' solutions, but Request Tracker could fill the need. Have a look at: http://bestpractical.com/rt/features.html It's avalable in ports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/rt36/pkg-descr With this extension (AssetTracker): http://atwiki.chaka.net/ Good Luck, Jon : -- : Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. : (Dennis Ritchie) : : ___ : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list : http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions : To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software inventory management
From: stan Subject: Software inventory management : : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. : : I am looking for recomendations for a (hopefully automed), prefereably : web based tool to keep up with what versions of OS, OS patches, and ports : are installed on these machines. : : Could anyone with experience using such a tool share their experience, : both good and bad for such [ackages? : You might also want to look at RANCID, which is mainly aimed at routers, but since it works by comparing a text file with the previous day's text file, you shouldn't have too much trouble getting it to do servers too, assuming you can get something to do the actual reporting (could be as simple as a concatenation of pkg_info, dmidecode, pciconf -l, uname -a and a few others). http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ Best Regards, Howie (maybe will try this myself now...) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software inventory management
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, stan wrote: Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. I am looking for recomendations for a (hopefully automed), prefereably web based tool to keep up with what versions of OS, OS patches, and ports are installed on these machines. Could anyone with experience using such a tool share their experience, both good and bad for such [ackages? Look at Nagios.org. It already has plugins that will check things like disk space, and there may be something similar for software versions. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
