Nagios for client management?

[Hari Sekhon]

Paul Weaver wrote:
>
> >  Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system.  I was wondering if
> > anyone also uses it as a client management system?  By management,  I
> > mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux
> > clients.
>
> The closest thing we do is monitor patches on machines.
>
> For debian machines, we use a modified check-apt perl script 
> (originally from http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/nagios, modified to 
> do things like run apt-get update first)
> For windows machines, we snmp-poll the server and compare the listed 
> KB patches against an internal list
> For solaris machines we're looking at check_solaris_pca
>
Add to that list:

Redhat / CentOS   -  check_yum
Gentoo                     -  check_gentoo_portage

For patch monitoring on those Linux distros.

I wrote both and you can get them from NagiosExchange.org.

-h

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Hari Sekhon
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