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  • [mm]
    Junior Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 6

    #1

    Can I gather information about installed software?

    Hello, is there a way I can use Zabbix to create an overview of all installed software-packages and versions on my servers?

    The Zabbix-Agent could use programs like dpkg or apt on a linux machine to gather information about installed versions and maybe even check for available updates. I've recently written myself a little script that creates a csv report for all of my servers and I was wondering if it was possible to create such an overview with Zabbix. I could probably create an item for each package that could be installed but maybe there is an easier way?
  • harmonica
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2009
    • 251

    #2
    You can monitor de number of available linux updates.

    In OpenSuse i use method: zypper list-updates | grep -ci 'update'

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    • [mm]
      Junior Member
      • Dec 2009
      • 6

      #3
      Yes, that would be a good solution to log the number of available upgrades but I was more thinking about a view where you could see that servers a,b and c have apache 2.2.14 installed and servers b and c have php 5.3.2.

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      • harmonica
        Senior Member
        • Jan 2009
        • 251

        #4
        If you are using Debian or Ubuntu Linux, you can use the dpkg command to list installed software, but the result may not be desired.

        dpkg --get-selections

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