On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Khoury Brazil <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Ohad Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> 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.

I've just played around with it and upgraded it to rails 3, feel free
to contact me privately or on irc if you have any issues with it.

Ohad
>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
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