Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-20 Thread Martin Paul
Thanks to Sean for providing feedback! What do you think? could this be integrated into vanilla pca, or should we make a fork? For now I think it would be better to implement this in a wrapper to PCA or in a separate client. As far as I understand it, only output from PCA which is already

Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-20 Thread Fay, Sean
Correct, the list of patches I get is from the tool that does our system auditing (checks for old patches, checks for open ports, etc). I simply wrote down each patch it is checking for and finding lacking, and putting that into a text file. Which I searched, added one at a time on the

[pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-19 Thread Fay, Sean
Hello everyone my name is Sean and I am a Solaris admin. Recently I was given the task of remediating a vast list of scanned vulnerabilities on about 60 servers (with a mix of non-global zones). However since the scan was run I have gone through and patched (using Recommended patch set

Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-19 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Sean, Thumbs up! Thanks for the feedback! This is always good stuff to read! It's also good to know and confirm that the patchdiag.xref generation is working, since I didn't get much feedback (except from martin and tests I made myself) since it's implementation ;) Kind Regards, Thomas On

Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-19 Thread Fay, Sean
One wish I have though is perhaps there is a way to mass load a patch list on the site. For instance, I had approximately 70 patches to input and it seemed to take a considerable amount of time and clicking. If I had the patches I want (with patch number and level) in a specific format, I would

Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-19 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi, Am 19.04.2012 um 17:03 schrieb Fay, Sean: One wish I have though is perhaps there is a way to mass load a patch list on the site. For instance, I had approximately 70 patches to input and it seemed to take a considerable amount of time and clicking. If I had the patches I want (with

Re: [pca] Hurray to PCA and We Sun Solve! They have spared me numerous hours of tedious work

2012-04-19 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Haha Dagobert, you're raced again! :d Here is below, a copy of the mail sent to Martin: Any other thoughts? :) Other ppl? -- Subject: PCA additions (fork?) Hello martin, Please check the URL for the last 2 points of the API part... http://wiki.wesunsolve.net/Todo#API I was thinking about