Update Monitoring Idea

koma

koma

Hi all,
I was thinking about starting a project to maintain monitored the updates necessary on multiple FreeBSD machines.

Northing too complicated, I mean it could be a simple csv containing the packagename;version_installed;newversion that could be pushed on a MySQL DB or a shared folder. And a webgui/commandline interface to check the result of these output.

But before starting this idea/project I would like to know if any other is interested on it or maybe if exist already a project with these functionality.
 
Or even better, take advantage of the INDEX -file, this assuming that the INDEX -file is kept up to date, portsnap(8) keeps it up to date automatically:
# pkg_version -IvL'='

With portmaster(8) you can use --index and --no-index-fetch flags to tell it to use the INDEX -file instead of checking every port directory for new versions.

# portmaster -L --index --no-index-fetch | grep -i "new version"

Either way works the same and isn't more "advanced" than the other.
 
Thank you all for the reply,
what I've in my mind is to centralize in a webconsole the status of all the machines.
I've a farm with more than 30 bsd machines and take everything monitored has started to be more than a routine.
 
Yes I know that but this would only made me able to read 30 differents reports.
I want a unique reports in a centralized view
 
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