[opennms-devel] Monitoring RPM package versions via SNMP

[Peter N. <lis...@pe...>]

Hi Guys

I would like to monitoring installed RPM package versions on all my servers=
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via SNMP (which is possible with the default net-snmp configuration) and=20
compare these against the current versions and security updates for my Linu=
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distribution. If any packages are out of date, I want OpenNMS to show an=20
alert for that host so that an admin can go and update that machine. Now,=20
getting the list of currently available packages from a RPM Metadata=20
repository is trivial with a few lines or perl or python, and getting the=20
installed packages on a machine is a single snmp query so why hasn't someon=
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done this before?? Not only does it not appear to have been done with=20
OpenNMS, I cant seem to find anyone who has done it with any system!

Given that I would like to integrate with OpenNMS, and given that OpenNMS h=
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some basic asset management facilities, does anyone have any comments on th=
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before I go of and start hacking on some perl? Any recommendations on the=20
best way to integrate this? Is there something fundamentally wrong with the=
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idea that I am missing that has stopped someone else from doing it?

TIA

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Peter Nixon
http://www.peternixon.net/
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