On top of yum, we would like some kind of reporting tool that tells us, quickly and easily, that yum is working and new packages are being installed regularly on many desktops. So that a network admin could query some db, or run some app, that can answer the question "are all these computers, from IP address 10.x.x.1 to 10.x.y.254, up to date with the latest patches from yum?" Basically, we want to be able to check, across many computers at once, that yum is working properly. I can think of a few possible ways to handle this. For example, maybe setting up Nessus to scan for vulnerabilities would work; or maybe setting up yum logging to write to a syslog server and then run a script that analyzes and writes a report from the logs. But I'm hoping somebody's already solved this some better way. I realize that there are expensive ways to do this, like Patchlink (which is also part of Novell Zenworks), but I'm primarily interested in much cheaper ways. Free is good but probably not required. Anybody have a suggestion for a simple way to handle this? Thanks, Matt
