Linux – How to monitor package versions across multiple (Linux) servers

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We use Puppet for installing the base level OS and packages, but our own application packages are deployed manually by individual developers.

I'm looking for a web dashboard to view/monitor the package versions across all machines. Has anyone come across something that achieves this? The puppet-dashboard project is interesting, but it gives a node-centric view, whereas I'd like to see at the class level, e.g.

          Server 1 | Server 2 | Server 3 
   pkg1   v1.2     | v1.2     | *v1.3*
   pkg2   v.09     | v.09     | v.09

Thank you!

Best Answer

You can use http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/fr/ it will inventory the packages on your boxes.

Some people like to couple it with gpli

http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/en/about/features/ocsng-glpi.html

Used with a IT and Asset Management Software such as open source tool GLPI, you will have a powerful inventory and asset management software with automatic updates of computer configuration, license management, help desk and more.

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$ repoquery -i cherokee

Name        : cherokee
Version     : 0.99.49
Release     : 1.el5
Architecture: i386
Size        : 8495964
Packager    : Fedora Project
Group       : Applications/Internet
URL         : http://www.cherokee-project.com/
Repository  : epel
Summary     : Flexible and Fast Webserver
Description :
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports
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Debian Package Management – How to Completely Remove a Package

Will remove a package and all configuration files.

apt-get --purge remove package

If it is still giving you issues, try reinstalling then purging:

apt-get --reinstall install package
apt-get --purge remove package

You still might need to:

killall package

Reboot and if it started again run:

update-rc.d remove package

Story Time: Once for some unknown reason, when I purge removed ejabberd; it continued running. I trusted apt-get to kill it and remove it. It didn't. Needless to say, it eventually filled up my entire /var with a ramdisk log file. It continued until I killed all of the ejabberd processes and that quickly resolved the issue. So it taught me to always be sure that apt-get worked and killed all needed processes.

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