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07-10-2017

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Originally Posted by denisloide

Like I said I need an agent-like tool, that I can easily install in lots of linux servers to give me a full list of softwares installed in each server, that is!

Notice that "Linux" does not have a standardized package manager at all. In fact Linux is basically a kernel, not an OS and what makes it a complete OS is a bunch of GNU-tools added to it. Whoever does that adding choses and selects what he deems relevant and this way different "distributions" come to pass.

Because of this there is no package manager and the different distributors (the people/companies creating the distributions) created their own package managers. The two probably most widespread are rpm (RedHat Package Manager), developed by RedHat and used by: RedHat, SuSE, CentOS, Fedora, RHEL and perhaps a few more and apt, developed by Debian and used an all Debian-based distributions (Debian, *Ubuntu, Mint, etc.). There are other package managers either, but there are even distributions without a package manager (Gentoo and ArchLinux, IIRC) at all.

If you want an agent-like software to create a software inventory over various systems you will either have to limit which distributions (more precisely: which package managers) you want to support or perhaps write your own.

I hope this helps.

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smbta-util

SMBTA-UTIL(8)						    System Administration tools 					     SMBTA-UTIL(8)

NAME

       smbta-util - control encryption in VFS smb_traffic_analyzer

SYNOPSIS

       smbta-util

       smbta-util [COMMANDS...]

DESCRIPTION

       This tool is part of the samba(1) suite.

       smbta-util is a tool to ease the configuration of the vfs_smb_traffic_analyzer module regarding data encryption.

       The user can generate a key, install a key (activating encryption), or uninstall a key (deactivating encryption). Any operation that
       installs a key will create a File containing the key. This file can be used by smbta-tool on other machines to install the same key from
       the file.

COMMANDS

       -h
	   Show a short help text on the command line.

       -f KEYFILE
	   Open an existing keyfile, read the key from the file, and install the key, activating encryption.

       -g KEYFILE
	   Generate a new random key, install the key, activate encryption, and store the key into the file KEYFILE.

       -u
	   Uninstall the key, deactivating encryption.

       -s
	   Check if a key is installed.

       -c KEYFILE
	   Create a KEYFILE from an installed key.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3.4 of the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

       The original version of smbta-util was created by Holger Hetterich.

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

Samba 3.6							    03/29/2010							     SMBTA-UTIL(8)