[Ubuntu Chicago] 3rd party software auditing and updating tools?

[Brian Green]

It does inventory, and it can do package deployment. I'm not sure if it's
missing any other features of something defined as a package manager.  I
never used this feature, but was aware of it.
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php?page=package-deployment  Seems like
it would need more  handholding in an MS environment than using GPO/SMS (or
whatever acronyms are used nowadays), but the open sauce, cross platform
goodness isn't something I would have to sell to this group :)

Rich, using OCS/GLPI was my idea actually, just never got buy-in or adoption
from the groups where it really mattered :)   Everyone else wanted to just
haphazardly configure a ton of machines, with varying software, in varying
locations, swap hardware around.. then spend hours and hours trying to sort
through the confusion later on.    "What's the serial number on that hard
drive? Is it still under warranty? How much ram does that machine have?  We
should keep this info in a spreadsheet somewhere...."  *facepalm*  Yea, or
maybe in an Access database... or better yet, name the computer such that it
reflects all the relevant info you might ever want
CHI4PROC2HDLOTSARAM.crappydomain.com

Brian

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:46 PM, W. Scott Lockwood III
<scott at guppylog.com>wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Johnson [mailto:nixternal at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Richard
> JOHNSON
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: Ubuntu Chicago Local Community Team Mailing List
> Cc: scott at guppylog.com
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu Chicago] 3rd party software auditing and updating
> tools?
>
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:41:23AM -0600, Brian Green wrote:
> > I believe OCS-NG can do a lot of what you are asking:
> > http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
>
> Ahh, the favorite setup of our old buddy in that one office. Though
> configured incorrectly it is a pain in the ass, and if you don't let others
> that work on stuff know you just did that, then we might take you out, get
> you drunk, and then try to beat you up.
>
> > <http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/>I used it along with GLPI
> > http://www.glpi-project.org/?lang=en (they integrate pretty well), but
> > not to their full potential.  As far as I know, these are the 2 most
> > polished/reliable open source projects that do what you're asking.
>
> I have to agree here. I haven't used it in a Windows environment, but I
> know
> it does work. I knew this guy named Matt who swore by it, and because he
> was
> smarter than Brian, which he won't admit, I trust it :)
>
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>
> Ha!
>
> OCS is what we use for the inventory portion. Does it do package management
> as well???
>
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