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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if<BR>
> anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I<BR>
> mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux<BR>
> clients.<BR>
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The closest thing we do is monitor patches on machines.<BR>
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For debian machines, we use a modified check-apt perl script (originally from <A HREF="http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/nagios">http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/nagios</A>, modified to do things like run apt-get update first)<BR>
For windows machines, we snmp-poll the server and compare the listed KB patches against an internal list<BR>
For solaris machines we're looking at check_solaris_pca<BR>
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