I think there's a common API for recent AV products. That's how XP/SP2 knows
whether you have an AV product installed, and how up to date the signatures are.
P.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk Bulinckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <salive@woodstone.nu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 6:16 AM
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing?
For the AV, the main issue will be that there are soooo many different AV products each with their own interfaces and nothing in common :-(
An out-of-the-office check can only be done IF we know how each mail client
would work, I don't think this is something we can and want to do.
Dirk.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of David Webster
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:06 AM
To: salive@woodstone.nu
Subject: RE: [SA-list] Major product checks missing?
How about the ability to query the state of anti virus products (Symantec)? I'd like to be able to check that AV software running on server X is running definitions version Y dated Z. Yes, I know that there is some combination of add-on products and scripts that would do this for me, but that's not why I use SA. If I could or wanted to code, I wouldn't need SA.
Ok, this next one is not a check, but it would be REALLY helpful if SA could somehow re-check an item that other checks depend on. For example, a typical series of checks I do is ping a windows box over VPN, and if that check is up, check a bunch of services, disk space, etc. on target box. If the VPN goes down midway through the service checks, SA flags all the services as down, and I get a zillion alerts. It would be fabulous if SA could, for a group of dependent checks, re-check the "parent" check after completing the group and if it is now down consider all the dependant checks UNAVAILABLE. (Just like it does if the parent check is down initially.)
Finally, can a check be added to see if I am sending out-of-office messages to the SA mailing list and then alert me by email (at that same address) if I am?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 5:37 PM To: salive@woodstone.nu Subject: [SA-list] Major product checks missing?
In SA (and add-ons) there are already a lot of checks for most major "products". Things like perfmon/process/service/wins (addon) are typicaly for NT/Win2K/Win2K3 SQL server Oracle mail (mailflow addon) URL (IIS/Apache/...) *nix (diskspace/process both as addon) ...
Anything "major" that is missing?
First thing that jumps to my "mind" is mySQL ... But that's something we're already working on :-) so you don't have to mention that one.
Other ideas are welcome...
Dirk.
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