From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 15:51:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B54D16A501 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:51:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from post1.network-i.net (antigua.network-i.net [212.21.121.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 195D643E8D for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:45:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 23577 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2006 15:46:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by post1.network-i.net with SMTP; 12 Dec 2006 15:46:20 -0000 Message-ID: <457ECF46.6020803@thingy.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:48:22 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20061212115503.GA13120@teddy.fas.com> <05b101c71dfc$152b1ea0$05dc3818@mdm246a3e4f6fc> In-Reply-To: <05b101c71dfc$152b1ea0$05dc3818@mdm246a3e4f6fc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Software inventory management X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:51:46 -0000 From: "stan" > Subject: Software inventory management > > > : > : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest > : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, > : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. > : > : I am looking for recomendations for a (hopefully automed), prefereably > : web based tool to keep up with what versions of OS, OS patches, and ports > : are installed on these machines. > : > : Could anyone with experience using such a tool share their experience, > : both good and bad for such [ackages? > : > You might also want to look at RANCID, which is mainly aimed at routers, but since it works by comparing a text file with the previous day's text file, you shouldn't have too much trouble getting it to do servers too, assuming you can get something to do the actual reporting (could be as simple as a concatenation of pkg_info, dmidecode, pciconf -l, uname -a and a few others). http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/ Best Regards, Howie (maybe will try this myself now...)