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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Software Update reporting script Post 302306242 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Saturday 11th of April 2009 08:56:30 PM

04-11-2009

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I'm not seeing the -l option in man softwareupdate, but it ran without complaining in my one test (on a machine that needed no updates).

You should be able to grep the lines relating to software updates, then pipe to "wc -l"

Store that in a variable, then write the host name and update count to a file, presumable with an easily parsible delimiter (like "=" for instance).

Push the file to a central mutually accessible location, then cat the files.
From there you can create your report.

The important part is determining the unique character/s you want to grep for on the hosts, before writing the host specific reports. It's pretty easy to determine from the "man" output, and running the command on a few machines that actually need updates.

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kproplog

KPROPLOG(1)						      General Commands Manual						       KPROPLOG(1)

NAME

       kproplog - display the contents of the Kerberos principal update log

SYNOPSIS

       kproplog [-h] [-e num]

DESCRIPTION

       The  kproplog  command  displays the contents of the Kerberos principal update log to standard output.  It can be used to keep track of the
       incremental updates to the principal database, when enabled.  The update log file contains the update log maintained by the kadmind process
       on  the master KDC server and the kpropd process on the slave KDC servers.  When updates occur, they are logged to this file.  Subsequently
       any KDC slave configured for incremental updates will request the current data from the master KDC and  update  their  principal.ulog  file
       with any updates returned.

       The  kproplog  command  can  only  be  run  on a KDC server by someone with privileges comparable to the superuser.  It will display update
       entries for that server only.

       If no options are specified, the summary of the update log is displayed.  If invoked on the master, all of the update entries are also dis-
       played.	 When  invoked	on  a  slave KDC server, only a summary of the updates are displayed, which includes the serial number of the last
       update received and the associated time stamp of the last update.

OPTIONS

       -h     Display a summary of the update log.  This information includes the database version number, state of the database,  the	number	of
	      updates in the log, the time stamp of the first and last update, and the version number of the first and last update entry.

       -e num Display the last num update entries in the log.  This is useful when debugging synchronization between KDC servers.

       -v     Display individual attributes per update.  An example of the output generated for one entry:
	       Update Entry
		  Update serial # : 4
		  Update operation : Add
		  Update principal : test@EXAMPLE.COM
		  Update size : 424
		  Update committed : True
		  Update time stamp : Fri Feb 20 23:37:42 2004
		  Attributes changed : 6
			Principal
			Key data
			Password last changed
			Modifying principal
			Modification time
			TL data

SEE ALSO

       kpropd(8)

																       KPROPLOG(1)