On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Khoury Brazil <khoury.bra...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Jacob Helwig <ja...@puppetlabs.com> 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 >
That's actually very useful, regardless of whether or not it solves my particular problem. I'm definitely going to have to check it out. >>>> >>>> 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 puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
