patchdashboard

Patch Management Dashboard

Patch Management Dashboard does one thing, but it does it well:

• Monitors for needed patches on your nodes.

In a future release (Hopefully sometime in August), it will give you the ability to suppress patches on a per-server or a global basis, as well as tell the system to install a single package, or fully update a server.

=============== ##Install

To install:

• simply clone this git (git clone https://github.com/jonsjava/patchdashboard.git)
• cd into patchdashboard (cd /opt/patchdashboard)
• run install.sh (./install.sh)

It will ask you some questions. Simply provide the answers, or accept the default answers found in the "[]" boxes If it does not have anything in "[]", you must provide an answer.

Finally To add a node:

• run "/opt/patch_manager/add_server.sh"
• follow instructions

On each node:

• make sure root can log in, and is not blocked by sshd_config directives
• if root cannot log in (their password is hashed, but SSH allows them), make sure to copy the contents of "id_rsa.pub" in /root/.ssh into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys on each node
• after adding the shared key, from the patch server, ssh into the node as root to make sure the keypair works.
• if root can log in (they have a password set), run this from the patch server:
• ssh-copy-id root@SERVER_IP (change SERVER_IP to the nodes IP address)

=============== ##Links

To discuss this product, or help direct the future of this project, join our forums To keep up-to-date on the direction of this project, you are free to stop by the blog (still in progress)

TODO: A LOT!

• Complete installer script
• Add more distros
• make everything database-driven
• Configure patch suppression In the works. Complete soon
• configure ability to install patches from the web interface In the works. Complete soon
• configure ability to patch windows hosts
• configure logins, allowing for tie-in to LDAP/AD, and possibly a SSO solution like RADIUS In the works. Complete soon

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DEVELOPERS:

• jonsjava (Creator/Project guide/Underpinning Developer/PHP & BASH Developer/DBA) https://github.com/jonsjava
• metalcated (BASH Developer) https://github.com/metalcated

If you like what we're doing, we could always use some donations to help with hosting costs.

A special thanks to Josh Reichardt (http://thepracticalsysadmin.com/) who helped a ton with my early release. You rock!