I have been asked to provide a security patch analysis of servers in my environment. For HPUX and Solaris there are tools wich can be loaded onto the servers to do this. However I do not know of one for Redhat . At this point I must mentioned that the Redhat servers are behind a firewall and have no access to the internet.
I know I can download individual rpms and apply them, but is their a tool that can analyse the server for me and supply a list of up-to-date patches.
Your options are to use a Satellite Server or to cobble something together with Puppet/Yum/cobbler.
You can use Spacewalk (Because Satellite is a bit expensive) if you have an RHN subscription and download all packages yourself, manually or by scripting it.
Other than looking at the dates when pkgs were applied in /var/log/yum.log* how can I tell when the last time a RedHat system was patched? My systems don't have regular access to the web.
Thanks in advance.
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I have found 3 different tools to patch Solaris 9:
1. Patch Check Advanced (PCA) by Martin Paul
BigAdmin: Solaris Information Center - Patching Support
Patch Check Advanced
2. Update Manager from Sun
Sun Connection
3. pkg-get, wget, etc. from Blastwave.org
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06-23-2011
Patch analysis tool Redhat Enterprise release 4
