On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Khoury Brazil <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jacob Helwig <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:28:37 -0700, Khoury wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Does anyone have any experience with debian/ubuntu and or OS X with >>> regard to reporting on updates? I'm interested in getting update >>> (specifically security) states for compliance (SOX, PCI, etc) >>> purposes. I know there's spacewalk for things like this, but I'm kind >>> of hoping to avoid going the centos/redhat route for my servers. I'm >>> thinking of using unattended-upgrade --debug --dry-run on Debian/ >>> Ubuntu and maybe softwareupdate on OS X to build custom facts.
a few couple of years ago I built a simple web UI [1] for tracking down packages / versions / hosts. it should probably work, while you can either use mcollective, or a simple cron or whatever to send the packages data into that service. Ohad [1] - https://github.com/ohadlevy/dish >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Best, >>> Khoury >>> >> >> Sounds like you want the collection functionality that you get with >> MCollective. >> >> I'm afraid I haven't played around with it as much as I'd like, but I'm >> sure others can chime in with details. >> >> -- >> Jacob Helwig >> ,---- >> | Join us for PuppetConf, September 22nd and 23rd in Portland, OR >> | http://bit.ly/puppetconfsig >> `---- >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQGcBAEBAgAGBQJOK45iAAoJEHJabXWGiqEBtMgMALpWYg+B9DqmcVgZMkg1sNVo >> MGQaIXL9WGtZWH37CeTdP92SDIXK2GPUUFL7GZCzEBf0sSAbjg1FI5UaGUduH5/K >> 6USlI/85NEBdf84iwhJ/MUIKcjaGkYZPlHJe7vFeKry3+TEpPWgNAfXk9s+IoqVS >> XAECFczwJOJZbgJ9zPG8fayXe5cMjHhvHYvWKO9selMxAVEFkteOamQ/hjKKEb92 >> C9hKuYOfwOdgodzEPn5KQYb3OQLQ1yqP09mcaKlNjdBoYvGuIUNM0tyBkuH3YqT2 >> rvLz0cBfrQ4IbTnbI4oLIApzRgqbAwUXP9J2Aou18AydTMhVmLxoBTCsVCz+lG13 >> WmcgLyc1ly1tzGptDVZc+0z/6cTZSbpUg6qW2JLTEOzKjiR1DhYs8n2MlOuKNE53 >> FulPKJmeiGAnSTH+noeOlfpSXlkigAVBY+jMs4aUsAUfamEkdSD1cnvZtnDhnee0 >> XSfGcS6Qmrz2Ghgnb9RH2wbYS+elqsDUrbBa0vBycQ== >> =QUn5 >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> > > Unfortunately mcollective wouldn't really work for me. It would, for > servers, for the most part. So I might utilize it for those. But I'm > looking at managing OS X clients too, many of which are laptops. My > understanding of mcollective is that it requires the connectivity > between the servers to be always on. That wouldn't work well for > laptops. Thanks for the recommendation though. I'd completely spaced > that mcollective existed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
