Nagios Core - Installed software auditing

[neworderfac33]

Good morning,

Is anyone out there aware of a plugin for Nagios Core that will allow me to carry out an audit of installed software on remote servers?

Thanks in advance

Pete

[hsmith]

Good morning,

Is anyone out there aware of a plugin for Nagios Core that will allow me to carry out an audit of installed software on remote servers?

Thanks in advance

Pete

I have not tested this yet, but it could be what you're looking for. I'll see if I can test it today / Monday if today is crazy.

[neworderfac33]

Cool - thank you for going to all that trouble!

Pete

[hsmith]

Cool - thank you for going to all that trouble!

Pete

No worries, can I ask for some clarification on the scope of this? Are you just looking to get a list of software? I have it somewhat working, but the input that it is returning is kind of ishy.

[hsmith]

Hi Pete, I have an update.

I was able to get the script working, sort of. The one I linked works, but the problem here is that NRPE has a character limit, so the data gets cut off when it gets sent back to the Nagios server. We do have a workaround, however, I am unable to recommend it. You would have to recompile a modified NRPE from source. The powershell script from the plugin that I linked does work all right, but if you are using NSClient to report back to your servers, "you're going to have a bad time." If you let me know *exactly* what you want to do I may be able to help, but at this time it is looking kind of messy.