Patch analysis tool Redhat Enterprise release 4

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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Hello

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.

best regards

Darren.

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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.

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Hi Mark

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the slow response. Shortly after posting this the company decided to grant internet access.

Thanks anyway Darren.